Snoqualmie (fireboat)
The Snoqualmie was Seattle's first fireboat.[1][2] She was the first fireboat on North America's west coast. She was launched in 1891, as a steam-powered vessel. She was extensively taken out of service, and rebuilt when Seattle completed its second fireboat, the Duwamish, in 1909. Her coal-fueled boilers were replaced with oil-fueled ones. The retrofit included altering her profile. She had a new superstructure, and the replacement of her boiler meant replacing her original smokestack with a pair of smokestacks.
She was replaced, in front line service, by the more powerful, gasoline powered Alki in 1927.[1][2] Snoqualmie was demoted to patroling Lake Union. Since Lake Union is not at sea level, fireboats stationed elsewhere have a long delay arriving at fires on or near Lake Union, because they have to transit canal locks. She was finally retired from service, in Seattle, in 1935.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Richard Schneider (2007). Seattle Fire Department. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781439634332. Retrieved on 2017-03-20.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Alki fireboat: The History. Retrieved on 2017-03-20. “In 1927 Seattle’s third fireboat, the Alki, measuring 123 feet in length with a pumping capacity of 12,000 gallons per minute, replaced the aging Snoqualmie fireboat.”
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