Charles A. Reed (fireboat)

The City of Toronto's first official fireboat, the Charles A. Reed.

The Charles A. Reed was the City of Toronto's first official fireboat.[1] Charles A. Reed was wooden boat commissioned in 1923 by the Toronto Fire Department as a full time fireboat and station at Toronto Island.

Previously the privately owned T.J. Clark had provided some firefighting capability. Charles A. Reed was used well into the 1950s[2] and retired in 1964 and replaced by William Lyon Mackenzie.[3]

Charles Reed was deployed to fight the fire that destroyed the SS Noronic in 1949 at Pier 9.[4]


References

  1. ↑ "Ship of the Month No. 35 T. J. Clark". Maritime History of the Great Lakes. Archived from the original on 2013-03-02. "T. J." was fitted with fire fighting equipment and she served, in addition to her regular duties, as harbour and island fireboat until 1923 when the Toronto Fire Department took delivery of its own vessel, the wooden pumper CITY OF TORONTO T. F. D., soon renamed CHARLES A. REED.
  2. ↑ http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?R=DC-PICTURES-R-5368
  3. ↑ https://www1.toronto.ca/city_of_toronto/fire_services/fire_station_locations/files/pdf/334-information.pdf
  4. ↑ https://www1.toronto.ca/city_of_toronto/fire_services/fire_station_locations/files/pdf/334-information.pdf
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