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Photos by Britton W Crosby

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Baltimore City, MD

Original Feature Posted April 26, 2004 - Re-launched January 28, 2012
Updated March 21, 2023

MARYLAND BOATS
Annapolis   Anne Arundel   Avenue Dist 7 Baltimore  Benedict Bowleys Quarters
Charlestown    Chesapeake City   Cobb Island   Deale  Havre DeGrace Kent Island
Marbury Dist 10    Nanjemoy   Newburg North Beach   North Point-Edgemere   Ocean City   Oxford
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Romancoke   Salisbury   Shady Side   Solomons  St. Michaels  Towson MD Fire Museum Tilghman Island

BALTIMORE CITY, MD
Marine Division Old Boats Fireboat 1 Fireboat 2
Fire / Rescue Boat 1 Fire / Rescue Boat 2

THE OLD BOATS

BALTIMORE CITY FIRE BOATS
The City of Baltimore has a large and busy port.
Over the years there have been many large fires along the waterfront.
Baltimore City has had many fire boats over the years.
When I first photographed the boats in the 1980's and 1990's
they were painted orange & white, as was most of the fire apparatus
at that time.
Apparatus and the boats were painted red and white in the 2000's.
Today the city maintains a reduced, but modern Marine Division.

HikeMetal Fire Boats
SeaArk Fire Boats

"August Emrich"
Baltimore Fireboat
Built 1960 - Retired 1994
85' 4 1/2" LOA, 6000 gpm Capacity
Built at Jakobson Shipyard Inc., Oyster bay, L.I., NY
Originally served as Engine 48 in Oct 1960.
Served as Reserve Fire Boat 2 from 1972 until decommissioned in Oct 1994

"Mayor J. Harold Grady"
Baltimore Fireboat 2
Built 1960 - Last served in reserve status until sold in 2008
85' LOA, 6000 gpm Capacity

July 1990

"Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr."
Baltimore Fireboat 2
Built 1956
104' 8" LOA, 21'8" beam, 7'8" draft
12,000 gpm Capacity
Reassigned as Fireboat 1 in 1991
At one time was the only large active fireboat in the
Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay area.

"Fire / Rescue Whaler"
Baltimore Fireboat
Fiberglass Boston Whaler purchased in 1991
1000 gpm
Decommissioned in 2003

Baltimore City

Marine Division Old Boats Fireboat 1 Fireboat 2
Fire / Rescue Boat 1 Fire / Rescue Boat 2

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