Fire Boat

  • Moss Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa, Miss., a member of the Trinity Marine Group, has delivered the Moku Ahi, a 110-foot fire boat, custom- designed for use in the Honolulu Harbor.

    The vessel is equipped with four water monitors or nozzles with a collective capacity of up to 12,000 gallons per minute of water and foam.

    One of the fire monitors is located atop a telescoping tower which can rise 50 feet above the water to allow placement of a stream on the deck of a large ship in ballast.

    The Moku Ahi was designed by Guido Perla & Associates, Inc., Seattle, based on results of a study commissioned by the State of Hawaii, Department of Transportation.

    That study, which included the option of refurbishing the 35-yearold Abner T. Longley, built for the same service, concluded that a new vessel should be built to protect major hazard areas in and around Honolulu, including tank farms, wooden piers, flammable cargo within the commercial port, nearby yacht and private vessel moorages, offshore anchorages and a new oil unloading facility at Barber's Point, over 17 miles from the fire boat station inside Honolulu Harbor.

    While the latter was considered too far away to receive first response coverage from the harbor, it did add a requirement that the boat would be capable of operating in the open ocean.

    The resulting boat is 110 feet long, with a 22-foot beam, and 6.5- foot draft.

    Propulsion and pumping power is provided by two Detroit Diesel 16V92TA engines developing 1,100 horsepower at 2,100 rpm. They drive fixed-pitch propellers through Twin Disc marine transmissions. A 3,500-gpm fire pump is driven off of each propulsion engine through a Fawick air clutch.

    Fire suppressant foam is supplied from stainless steel tanks located below decks.

    The Moku Ahi's four fire monitors include one 5,000-gpm remoteoperated unit mounted on the foredeck, two 2,500-gpm manually operated water monitors on the bridge deck aft, and one 2,000-gpm remoteoperated foam/water monitor on top of the pilothouse.

    Starting, operating, and stopping of the propulsion, electrical, and firefighting systems is automated for control from the wheelhouse, and the vessel and all systems can be operated by a crew of two.

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  • Western Marine Electronics has delivered its powerful bow thruster systems to a Fire Boat for the City of San Francisco. Per specifications her ability to maneuver in tight situations and hold steady during firefighting operations will be facilitated by WESMAR’s Model V2-20 NS 100 HP stainless steel, dual

  • Today, despite an abundance of market challenges and supply chain headaches, many of America’s police and fire boat builders are in possession of the shipyard holy grail: a healthy backlog.Dave Hunt, business development and project manager for Theodore, Ala. based Silver Ships said vessel orders from

  • a variety of missions including command and control, general patrol, and search and rescue operations in both inland, coastal, and offshore waters.Fire Boat 2 - A “next-generation” fireboatFire Boat 2, delivered to Orange Beach Fire Rescue in Alabama this summer, is the first 38 Defiant

  • several rigid aluminum inflatable vessels (RAIV), a pair of gillnetters and a few multisession vessels such as a 33-foot survey/patrol boat and a 30-foot fire boat/landing craft, among others.North River Boats currently has a healthy backlog that includes an array of commercial and government vessels under constructi

  • the SMFF regulatory requirements, entities such as the Rapid Ocean Response Corporation (RORC), a private equity group whose sole asset is a small fire boat funded by a governmental grant, criticize both the salvage industry and the Coast Guard’s oversight. As this was a topic of a Congressional Hearing

  • The Seattle Fire Department in Washington recently completed the training of crews for its new 26-knot fire boat, the Chief Seattle. With three Detroit Diesel 16V92TI engines rated at 1,000 shp at 2,300 rpm, driving both propellers and fire pumps, the boat can reach waterfront fires in a hurry and

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  • effusive in his praise of his new hull, saying, “The boat we received from Moose Boats has exceeded our expectations. This is the first joint Police and Fire boat for the City of Memphis and our expectations were pretty high. We are looking forward to utilizing it to improve our patrol, search and rescue and

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