Captain Crotty (fireboat)
Captain Crotty (fireboat) [r]: A fireboat operating in Houston, Texas [e]
The Captain Crotty was Houston's second fireboat.[1] When commissioned in 1950 she replaced the Port Houston.[2][3] She was joined by Houston's third fireboat, the Captain J.L. Farnsworth in 1973. In 1983 she, in turn was retired, replaced by the J.S. Bracewell and Howard T. Tellepsen.[4]
The Captain Crotty was 79 feet (24.08 m) long, and built in the R.T.C Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey.[2] According to Motorboating magazine she was "highly maneuverable", while built to a "relatively inexpensive" design.
After she was retired she was sold to Ocean Diving Adventures Incorporated, for $50,000.[5]
She was named after Charles Crotty, who had been assistant director of the Port.[6] The name was picked through a contest.[7]
References
- ↑ State-of-the-Art Emergency Response Vessel Headed Home, Port of Houston Authority, 2014-05-14. Retrieved on 2019-08-30. “In 1924, a fire in the hold of a steamship carrying cotton prompted the Houston Fire Commissioner to declare that the Port of Houston needed adequate firefighting apparatus to attack fires from water as well as land. A bond election to pay for the city's first fireboat passed with a wide margin. This election occurred just one day after a fire along the banks of the Houston Ship Channel spread to oil on the water and burned for more than two hours, with flames as high as 40 feet.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fireboat for Houston, Motorboating magazine, July 1950, p. 122. Retrieved on 2019-08-30. “Captain Crotty, a new 79-foot Diesel-powered fireboat for the Port of Houston, Texas, was launched recently at the R.T.C. Shipbuilding Co., Camden, New Jersey.”
- ↑ Mark Lardas. The Port of Houston, Arcadia Publishing, p. 78. Retrieved on 2019-08-30.
- ↑ Houston Fire Department, Arcadia Publishing, p. 46, 62, 69. Retrieved on 2019-08-30.
- ↑ Captain Crotty sold for $50,000, Port of Houston magazine, p. 29. Retrieved on 2019-08-30.
- ↑ Illustrated City Book of Houston, University of Michigan, 1925, p. 181. Retrieved on 2019-08-30.
- ↑ Rivers and Harbors, University of Michigan, p. 36. Retrieved on 2019-08-30.