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Definition of Fireboats
1. fireboat [n] - See also: fireboat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fireboats
Literary usage of Fireboats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Centrifugal Pumping Machinery: The Theory and Practice of Centrifugal and by Carl George De Laval (1912)
"fireboats AND SHIPBOARD SERVICE. fireboats. TURBINE pumps are extensively used
for fireboat equipments whore reciprocating flywheel pumps were at one time ..."
2. Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California by Commonwealth Club of California (1922)
"San Francisco supported those fireboats for a long period of time. The fireboats
were used, by reason of their very nature, in the protection of the ..."
3. An Inquiry Into the Conditions Relating to the Water-supply of the City of by Merchants' Association of New York (1900)
"Just what its limit is in a given case, it would perhaps be difficult to determine,
but while very excellent work has been done by the New York fireboats ..."
4. Marine Fire Prevention, Firefighting and Fire Safety: A Comprehensive (1994)
"The fireboats' first operation was to separate the two tankers, to protect the
Massachusetts ... With the fireboats in position, tugs were able to raise the ..."
5. Standard Schedule for Grading Cities and Towns of the United States with by National Board of Fire Underwriters (1917)
"fireboats.—A fireboat shall be required where there is an occupied wharf frontage
... For privately owned fireboats or tugboats with fire pumps and turrets, ..."
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