Fireboat No. 1 (Tacoma, Wash.)
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Fireboat No. 1 was built in 1929 for the Port of Tacoma, Washington by the Coastline Shipbuilding Company of Tacoma for US$148,000. She is 96 feet, six inches (29.4 m) long with a 21-foot, six-inch (6.5 m) beam and a six-foot (1.8 m) draft. Her seven water cannons have a capacity of 10,000 gallons per minute (37,800 lpm). The vessel is the only fireboat in U.S. history to protect a major port by itself for more than half a century.
After 54 years of service in waterfront fire protection, harbor security patrols, search and rescue missions, and water pollution control, Fireboat No. 1 was put up on on a permanent dry berth at a public beach near Tacoma’s Old Town neighborhood. She is one of only five fireboats designated as a National Historic Landmark. Visitors are able to walk around her exterior, but her interior is closed to the public.
