Fireboat ''New Yorker'' in Action 1903

May 20, 1903 (excerpts) Edison Manufacturing Co.

The fire boat ''New Yorker'' puts on a water display for the camera.
This edit shows a demonstration by the famous fire boat ''New Yorker.'' The picture shows the fire boat with all its nozzles spurting water as it goes back and forth in front of the camera. Put in service on February 1, 1891 as Engine Company 57, the ''New Yorker'' was stationed at the Battery near Castle Garden, where her crew lived aboard. She was 125 feet long, 25 feet abeam, with a tonnage of 243. The 800 horsepower triple expansion engine turned a single screw. With a total capacity of 13,000 gallons per minute from its Clapp & Jones and La France fire pumps, the ''New Yorker'' was the most powerful fire boat in the world. When Admiral Dewey came to New York with the flagship ''Olympia'' after the battle of Manilla Bay, the ''New Yorker'' led the water parade of hundreds of craft. Built at a cost of $98,250, the ''New Yorker'' remained in service until 1931.

New York City firefighters are the living embodiment of the bravery inherent in this city's soul.

Heres a film of the lower Manhattan skyline from the Hudson River including a brief view of Engine Company 57s Harbor station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVXlQI00uyM

Recommended reading:
Our Firemen / The History of the New York Fire Departments from 1609 to 1887 - Augustine E. Costello
(This is a classic and comprehensive work that is a great source of city history and reference covering almost three centuries of New York's Bravest.)

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