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fireboats
n. (plural of fireboat English)
Usage examples of "fireboats".
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.
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.
Oh, used to be the fireboats would get out here and try to smother it with chemicals and such, but that seemed to be worse than letting it burn.