first modern fireboat. John Kendall – (Detroit) – Steam fireboat on Detroit River 1930–1976. (retired, scrapped) John J. Harvey – (New York City) (1931–1959) (Temporary reinstatement 9/11/2001) (retired)(Museum ship) Massey Shaw – (London, England) Serving in London Fire Brigade. Dunkirk Little Ship rescuing troops during Operation Dynamo (retired) Phoenix – (San Francisco) (active) Pyronaut – moored at Bristol Harbour Railway and Industrial Museum (Bristol, England) (retired) Ralph J. Scott – (Los Angeles) (retired) Sir Alexander Grantham – (Hong Kong) (retired) St. Mungo (fireboat) – Glasgow/Strathclyde (retired) Three Forty Three – FDNY (New York City) (2009) Country's largest fireboat, twin to Fire Fighter II. (Active) Thomas D'Alesandro (fireboat) – Baltimore (1956-2016) (retired) Warner Lawrence – Los Angeles (active) William F. Flanders – (Boston) 1873 William F. Havenmeyer – (NYC) 1875–1901 (retired) William Lyon Mackenzie – (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) (active) William O. Bird II – Sandusky Fire Department (Sandusky, Ohio) (active) USS Active / USS Lively – US Navy – Fireboat/Tug (1888–1945) Fireboat participated in 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. (retired and scrapped) – US Army / US Navy – Fireboat/Tug (1865–1922) Fireboat participated in 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. (retired and scrapped) – US Army / US Navy – Fireboat/Tug (1861) Fireboat participated in 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. (retired and scrapped) Departments with fireboats Government and military with fireboats Japan Coast Guard – 9; 230 patrol boats with water cannons or firefighting support systems United States Coast Guard Fire class fireboat of the Royal Canadian Navy's auxiliary fleet (2): CFAV Firebird (YTR 561) CFAV Firebrand (YTR 562) See also Fireboat Station, Tacoma, Washington Lambeth Fire Station, London, England, with a river fireboat station Firefighter Firefighting apparatus Police watercraft Rigid-hulled inflatable boat References External links "Smoke Eaters On Water", May 1931, Popular Science detailed article about New York city fireboats of that era "Diesel Fire Boat Shoots Seventeen Streams" Popular Mechanics, August 1937—i.e. article on Chicago Fire Department fire boat Fred A. Busse (fireboat) Painting of the fireboat “The New Yorker,” 1893, in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database Book: "Fire - floats and fireboats" - David C Pike type=Manufacturer “New type of fireboats” Boat types Boat Port infrastructure Ship types