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23: 344: 505: 139:, on March 6, 1974. It stated that, after her retirement from Seattle, she had been re-used for a variety of purposes. Prior to the fire she was being used as a shrimp hauler. A coast guard vessel towed her away from a Kodiak re-fueling dock, to a point where she could be left to burn out without posing further danger. Observers said she burned for 36 hours. 124:. She was finally retired from service, in Seattle, in 1932, when the great depression made maintaining her too much of a burden. Seattle sold her in 1935, for her value as scrap metal -- $ 1,800. She nevertheless remained afloat, and in use, for almost another four decades. 99:, 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 single smokestack with a pair of smokestacks. Built by 93:. She was the first fireboat on North America's west coast. She was launched in 1891, as a 98 feet (30 m) long, wooden-hulled, steam-powered vessel. She was taken out of service, and rebuilt when Seattle completed its second fireboat, the 215:
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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She was retired in 1932. She was sold for scrap for $ 1,888 in 1935. But she helped build the Mercer island floating bridge in 1939-40, then went into obscurity.
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Then in 1909 the boat was considered worn out and unseaworthy, was replaced by a larger, steel-hulled vessel. But in 1910, the
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She was replaced, in front line service, by the more powerful, gasoline powered
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got an overhaul, and was converted from coal-fired to oil-fired power.
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Pacific Coast Engineering
Seattle
fireboat
Duwamish
Pacific Coast Engineering
Alki
Lake Union
canal locks
Kodiak, Alaska


Seattle Fire Department
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN
9781439634332


"Alki fireboat: The History"
the original
Cow Woman of Akutan: An Extraordinary, Compelling Story of a Unique Alaska Adventure
Publication Consultants
ISBN
9781594334801


"Fireboat comes to a flaming end off Kodiak dock"
Seattle Times
Alaska Shipwrecks: 1750 - 2010
Lulu Press

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