Fireboats of Long Beach, California

As a major port, Long Beach, California authorities have owned and operated Fireboats in Long Beach.^[1] Although administered separately the port facilities of Los Angeles and Long Beach are adjacent, and, together, form one of the largest container ports in the world.^[2] Los Angeles and Long Beach have an arrangement where one port will loan fireboats to the other, in case of need.

image	name	launched	notes
	Charles S. Windham	1942	The city's first fireboat.[3]
	Fireboat 1	1954	Fireboat 1, Long Beach's second fireboat.[4]
	Fireboat 2	1954	Fireboat 2, Long Beach's third fireboat.[4]
	Challenger	1987	The Los Angeles Times reported that the Challenger and Liberty began to show maintenance problems due to poor contrsturction within two years of their delivery.[2] Capable of pumping 10,000 Gallons per minute.[2]
	Liberty	1987	The Liberty had the same corrosion problems as her sister ship, the Challenger, and by September 1988 the Long Beach Harbour Commission had to allocate an addition $883,000 to repair the vessels.[5]
	Fireboat 20	2014	To be commissioned in mid 2014.[1] Designed to mount water cannons capable of fighting fires on the largest modern container ships.[1]
		2015	A sister ship to the Fireboat 20 will be commissioned in late 2014 or 2015.[1]

See also

• Fireboats of California
  • Fireboats of San Diego
  • Fireboats of San Francisco
• Fireboats of the United States
  • Fireboats of Chicago
  • Fireboats of Connecticut
  • Fireboats of Detroit
  • Fireboats of Jacksonville, Florida
  • Fireboats of New York City

References

1. "Powerful fireboat christened at Foss Maritime". Marine Log. 2014-04-15. Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Fireboat 20 and its sister are replacements for two older fireboats, the Liberty and Challenger.
2. Chris Woodyard (1988-04-27). "2 Long Beach Fireboats Gathering Rust". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. Retrieved 2014-05-16. After spending $4.4 million for two state-of-the-art fireboats, the Port of Long Beach is struggling to keep the vessels from becoming floating rust buckets.
3. Glen Goodrich (2005). Long Beach Fire Department: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 9780738530017. Retrieved 2014-05-17. In 1942, the City of Long Beach commissioned the building of its first fireboat, the Charles S. Windham. The Windham was built by Wilmington Boats Works and financed by the Harbor Department.
4. Erin Kurinsky. "INVENTORY OF THE LONG BEACH FIREMAN'S HISTORICAL MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, 1840-1971, bulk 1906-1971" (pdf). University of California. p. 8,9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-05-17.
5. Chris Woodyard (1988-09-29). "Long Beach to Spend $883,000 to Save 2 Fireboats". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2014-05-16. The commission is paying $653,000, the largest chunk of the funds, to a Terminal Island boatyard to correct design and construction deficiencies and to fix corrosion damage on the twin $2.2-million Challenger and Liberty, which were delivered to the city within the past two years.