Fire Fighter II
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Fire Fighter II is a Robert Allan Ltd. Ranger 4200 class fireboat put in service with Marine Company 9 of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) on December 7, 2010. The boat replaces the original Fire Fighter, and is sister to the fireboat Three Forty Three which serves with Marine Company 1.
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Fire Fighter II | |
History | |
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New York City Fire Department | |
Name | Fire Fighter II |
Operator | New York City Fire Department |
Laid down | 2008 |
Commissioned | December 7, 2010 |
Homeport | Homeport Pier, Staten Island |
Identification | MMSI number: 367597240 |
Nickname(s) | Tommy Phelan |
Status | In service |
Notes | Predecessor: Fire Fighter |
General characteristics | |
Length | 140 ft (43 m)[1] |
Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Installed power | MTU 4 × 2000 HP engines |
Propulsion | Hundested 4 × Variable Pitch Propellers |
Speed | 17 knots (20 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried | Tender |
Capacity | 20,000 gpm/50,000 gpm max |
Crew | 7 |
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In 2012, FDNY opened new quarters for Marine 9 at the Staten Island Homeport,[2] a 1,410-foot-long pier in Stapleton[3] that was built in 1980s to berth the Battleship Iowa as part of the former Naval Station New York.[4]