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A boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront
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fireboat
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n. A harbor boat designed for pumping high volumes of harbor water onto dockside fires.
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n. a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront
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A fireboat is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were tugboats , retrofitted with firefighting equipment. Older designs derived from ...
Usage examples of fireboat.
One, Dimitros, had ridden his fireboat right in, while his longboat team, rowing frantically behind, had screamed at him to jump.
It would take many hits as it came at the opposing ship, but by the time the enemy realized the danger, that it was not engaging an ordinary warship, the fireboat was beside it.
As he approached, he could see it was an antique fireboat, built of rich brown wood, mahogany or teak.
The bulk of a fireboat thrust itself into the blazing area of the river.
Set the fireboats on their line, leave one man to each, have him jump overboard at the last moment.
When the fireboats had struck, the besiegers must have run to the shore.
Spaniards were the masters of the fireboats, using them against the Infidels in many battles, but we became victims of our own cunning when we fought the English.
Two undermanned fireboats squirted high plumes of water onto two separate blazes.
London Fire Brigade has two fireboats with foam pumps but they are stationed upstream as well.
Brigade has two fireboats, both have been tasked to rush teams to help defend the Barrier.
Raikes uses the radio to order his precious fireboats back up-river before they are cut off.
They were in a position to offer protection to the Saxon if she chose to enter the Bogue, but the fireboats were also positioned to attack readily.
Two frigates against fifteen war junks and fourteen fireboats will seem laughable to Admiral Kuan.
It was being shadowed by a couple of fireboats and cops were swarming around on the decks.
Admiral Jacobzoon, who was in command, instead of sending down the fireboats in batches as arranged, sent them all off one after another, and started the two mine ships immediately afterwards.