Port Houston (fireboat)

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The Port Houston, commissioned in 1926, was the first fireboat to serve the Houston area.[1] She was replaced by the Captain Crotty in 1950.

According to the Transactions of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Port Houston was the world's first diesel-electric fireboat.[2]

References

  1. ↑ State-of-the-Art Emergency Response Vessel Headed Home, Port of Houston Authority, 2014-05-14. Retrieved on 2019-08-30. “In 1924, a fire in the hold of a steamship carrying cotton prompted the Houston Fire Commissioner to declare that the Port of Houston needed adequate firefighting apparatus to attack fires from water as well as land. A bond election to pay for the city's first fireboat passed with a wide margin. This election occurred just one day after a fire along the banks of the Houston Ship Channel spread to oil on the water and burned for more than two hours, with flames as high as 40 feet.”
  2. ↑ Transactions - The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, pp. 254, 260. Retrieved on 2019-08-30. “The Diesel electric fireboat Port Houston, mentioned by the author, cost the city of Houston, Texas, $314,000, according to the Office of the Port Commission.”
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