Fireboats

[WhyMe]

Baltimore City Fire Department fireboats as of 2010:

Btw is this format OK for uploading to the main site or I have to put each boat on a separate template?

P.S. I'm planning on drawing more fireboats from around the world

[Lazer_one]

Fine job and very good idea!

[ALVAMA]

Yea I wanted to fireboats aswell after I got a book about Damen shipyards, with I failed in finding references, so I droped the idea, but I'm very glad WhyMe was able to find it an make a great set of drawings!!

[darthpanda]

Great! I love fireboat, I still got one fireboat(WIP) of LA fire department!

[Thiel]

The correct term is fire-fighting boats or ships. A fire boat is something entirely different (and deadly)

[WhyMe]

The correct term is fire-fighting boats or ships. A fire boat is something entirely different (and deadly)

Encyclopædia Britannica (along with other sources) says otherwise

[ALVAMA]

Thiel, do you mean Burn-ships? ''Branders''

[Thiel]

The correct term is fire-fighting boats or ships. A fire boat is something entirely different (and deadly)

Encyclopædia Britannica (along with other sources) says otherwise

True, but every single other dictionary I've seen say that this is a fire ship

[BrockPaine]

The correct term is fire-fighting boats or ships. A fire boat is something entirely different (and deadly)

Encyclopædia Britannica (along with other sources) says otherwise

True, but every single other dictionary I've seen say that this is a fire ship

At least in the US, the terms "fire ship" and "fire boat" do not mean the same thing. A fire ship is used for lighting other things on fire; a fire boat is used for extinguishing fires on other things.

[Lazer_one]

"Chinese fire ships used by the navy as floating incendiaries, from the Wujing Zongyao military manuscript written in the year 1044 during the Song Dynasty."


On Italian the fire-ship was named Brulotto



Please note the small boat: it was essential to escape from the ship when ignited...