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[[File:Harold Ross Navy Pier 1Sept1967.jpg|thumb|Joseph Medill Fireboat 1967]] | [[File:Harold Ross Navy Pier 1Sept1967.jpg|thumb|Joseph Medill Fireboat 1967]] | ||
[[File:Chicago fireboat 688.jpg|thumb|300px|In 1908 the City of Chicago operated a fleet of large steam-powered fireboats, but by the end of the 20th Century they had largely been replaced by smaller, faster, less powerful vessels.]] | [[File:Chicago fireboat 688.jpg|thumb|300px|In 1908 the City of Chicago operated a fleet of large steam-powered fireboats, but by the end of the 20th Century they had largely been replaced by smaller, faster, less powerful vessels.]] | ||
As an important port city, [[Chicago]] has operated dedicated [[fireboat]]s since 1877.<ref name=ChicagoItsHistory/><ref name=ChicagoTribune1986/> | As an important port city, [[Chicago, Illinois]] has operated dedicated [[fireboat]]s since 1877.<ref name=ChicagoItsHistory/><ref name=ChicagoTribune1986/> | ||
In 1986, the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' offered a history of Chicago's larger fireboats, when the [[Chicago Fire Department]] moved the [[Victor L. Schlaeger (fireboat)|''Victor L. Schlaeger'']] from active to standby status.<ref name=ChicagoTribune1986/> | In 1986, the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' offered a history of Chicago's larger fireboats, when the [[Chicago Fire Department]] moved the [[Victor L. Schlaeger (fireboat)|''Victor L. Schlaeger'']] from active to standby status.<ref name=ChicagoTribune1986/> | ||
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* Sank during the Burlington Grain elevator fire, but was quickly refloated and put back into service.<ref name=Forgotten/> | * Sank during the Burlington Grain elevator fire, but was quickly refloated and put back into service.<ref name=Forgotten/> | ||
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| [[File:The fireboat Joseph Medill and 3 stacks of Youngstown S + T. - South Chicago.jpg|100px]] || [[Joseph Medill (1908)|''Joseph Medill'']] || 1908-06 || 1947-01 || | | [[File:The fireboat Joseph Medill and 3 stacks of Youngstown S + T. - South Chicago.jpg|100px]] || [[Joseph Medill (fireboat, 1908)|''Joseph Medill'']] || 1908-06 || 1947-01 || | ||
* According to ''Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards'' the ''Joseph Medill'' and ''Graeme Stewart'' were built in the same yard in [[Manitowoc, Wisconsin]], at the same time, and were "twins".<ref name=FireStrikes/> | * According to ''Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards'' the ''Joseph Medill'' and ''Graeme Stewart'' were built in the same yard in [[Manitowoc, Wisconsin]], at the same time, and were "twins".<ref name=FireStrikes/> | ||
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| [[File:Fireboat Graeme Stewart, Chicago, 1909 -a.jpg|100px]] || [[Graeme Stewart ( | | [[File:Fireboat Graeme Stewart, Chicago, 1909 -a.jpg|100px]] || [[Graeme Stewart (fireboat, 1909)|''Graeme Stewart'']] || 1909 || || | ||
* According to ''Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards'' the ''Joseph Medill'' and ''Graeme Stewart'' were built in the same yard in [[Manitowoc, Wisconsin]], at the same time, and were "twins".<ref name=FireStrikes/> | * According to ''Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards'' the ''Joseph Medill'' and ''Graeme Stewart'' were built in the same yard in [[Manitowoc, Wisconsin]], at the same time, and were "twins".<ref name=FireStrikes/> | ||
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| [[File:Ride The Fireboat -- Fred A Busse.jpg|100px]] || [[Fred A. Busse ( | | [[File:Ride The Fireboat -- Fred A Busse.jpg|100px]] || [[Fred A. Busse (fireboat, 1937)|''Fred A. Busse'']] || 1937 || 1981 || | ||
* Converted to an excursion boat.<ref name=ChicagoTribune1986/> | * Converted to an excursion boat.<ref name=ChicagoTribune1986/> | ||
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| || [[Joseph Medill (1948)|''Joseph Medill'']] || 1948 || || | | || [[Joseph Medill (fireboat, 1948)|''Joseph Medill'']] || 1948 || || | ||
* The 1948 ''Joseph Medill'' was a sister ship to the ''Victor L. Schlaeger''.<ref name=ShipIndexJosephMedill/> Now wreck in Escanaba, MI | * The 1948 ''Joseph Medill'' was a sister ship to the ''Victor L. Schlaeger''.<ref name=ShipIndexJosephMedill/> Now wreck in Escanaba, MI | ||
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| [[File:Chicago fireboat 688.jpg|100px]] || [[Chicago fireboat 6-8-8|''fireboat 6-8-8'']] || || || | | [[File:Chicago fireboat 688.jpg|100px]] || [[Chicago fireboat 6-8-8|''fireboat 6-8-8'']] || || || | ||
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| [[File:The Christopher Wheatley, Chicago Fire Department fireboat headed to the North Branch (11139316003).jpg|100px]] || ''[[Christopher Wheatley]]'' || 2010 || || | | [[File:The Christopher Wheatley, Chicago Fire Department fireboat headed to the North Branch (11139316003).jpg|100px]] || ''[[Christopher Wheatley (fireboat)|Christopher Wheatley]]'' || 2010 || || | ||
* Especially designed to navigate a city with shallow rivers and low bridges.<ref name=RobertAllanArchitects/> | * Especially designed to navigate a city with shallow rivers and low bridges.<ref name=RobertAllanArchitects/> | ||
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{{cite news| url =https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170731/downtown/seaplane-lands-on-lake-michigan-briefly-alarming-fire-department| title =Seaplane Lands On Lake Michigan, Briefly Alarming The Fire Department| author =Kelly Bauer| date =2017-07-31| location =[[Chicago]]| accessdate =2017-08-07| quote =The boat was launched into the lake so the Blackmon family and fire officials could have a ride, Merritt said.| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20170808033648/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170731/downtown/seaplane-lands-on-lake-michigan-briefly-alarming-fire-department| archivedate =2017-08-08}} | {{cite news| url =https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170731/downtown/seaplane-lands-on-lake-michigan-briefly-alarming-fire-department| title =Seaplane Lands On Lake Michigan, Briefly Alarming The Fire Department| author =Kelly Bauer| date =2017-07-31| location =[[Chicago, Illinois]]| accessdate =2017-08-07| quote =The boat was launched into the lake so the Blackmon family and fire officials could have a ride, Merritt said.| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20170808033648/https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170731/downtown/seaplane-lands-on-lake-michigan-briefly-alarming-fire-department| archivedate =2017-08-08}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:01, 16 August 2024
As an important port city, Chicago, Illinois has operated dedicated fireboats since 1877.[1][2]
In 1986, the Chicago Tribune offered a history of Chicago's larger fireboats, when the Chicago Fire Department moved the Victor L. Schlaeger from active to standby status.[2] According to that account, by 1908 the City was operating nine fireboats. However that was when many of the buildings that lined the waterfront were still made of wood, and by 1986 most of the factories and warehouses by the waterfront were built of concrete.
Josiah Seymour Currey, in a history of Chicago published in 1912, listed five fireboats operating in the early 1900s.[1]
By 1986 the city had introduced smaller, less powerful fireboats, that required smaller crews, and did not require specially trained and certified mariners to operate them.[2]
When she was commissioned in 2010, the Christopher Wheatley was Chicago's first full-size fireboat in sixty years.[3]
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| Alpha | 1885 |
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| Geyser | 1886 | |||
| Chicago | 188? | |||
| Yosemite | 1890 | |||
| Fire Queen | 1892 | 1905 |
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| Illinois | 1899 | |||
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Joseph Medill | 1908-06 | 1947-01 |
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Graeme Stewart | 1909 |
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Fred A. Busse | 1937 | 1981 |
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| Joseph Medill | 1948 |
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Victor L. Schlaeger | 1949 | 2010 | Built by Christy Corp, Sturgen Bay, WI. |
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fireboat 6-8-8 | |||
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Christopher Wheatley | 2010 |
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| Eugene Blackmon | 2017 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Josiah Seymour Currey. Chicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth (Volume v.2), Clarke publishing Company, p. 39. Retrieved on 2012-12-13. “All these so-called fireboats, however, were makeshifts. The Geyser was specially constructed as a river fireboat in 1886, chiefly through the earnest efforts of Fire Marshal Swenie. Swenie had been ordered to visit New York and other eastern cities to examine the fireboat service there. On his return the Geyser was built at an expense of $39,000. The Geyser was also used to open up the river in winter, and in 1887, she rendered splendid service in this way when the river was gorged with ice during the winter, and the flood of 1849 was likely to have been repeated.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Andrew Siegel. Aging Fleet Of Fireboats Put Out To Pasture, Chicago Tribune, 1986-09-08. Retrieved on 2012-12-14.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Allen. Christopher Wheatley: A Unique new Fireboat for the City of Chicago, Robert Allen, Architect, 2011-06-15.
- ↑ Bill Cosgrove. Chicago's Forgotten Tragedy, Author House, 2010, p. 118. Retrieved on 2013-12-10.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 John F. Hogan, Alex A. Burkholder (2013). Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle. The History Press. ISBN 9781609499075. Retrieved on 2013-11-22. “In June 1908, Goodrich and Carney joined Busse, Horan and three dozen more Chicagoans on a day trip to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to witness the launching of the new fireboat Joseph Medill. The Medill's twin, the Graeme Stewart stood alongside but was a bit further behind in construction.”
- ↑ Joseph Medill, Shipindex.org. Retrieved on 2013-11-22.
- ↑ Kelly Bauer. Seaplane Lands On Lake Michigan, Briefly Alarming The Fire Department, 2017-07-31. Retrieved on 2017-08-07. “The boat was launched into the lake so the Blackmon family and fire officials could have a ride, Merritt said.”
- ↑ New Chicago Fire Boat Named for Fallen Firefighter, Firehouse.com, 2017-08-06. Retrieved on 2017-08-07. “The family of fallen Chicago firefighter Eugene Blackmon Jr. helped the department christen their new fast boat that carries his name.”