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fire boat
fire boat n. (a) a boat loaded with burning material and explosives, which is set adrift to ignite and blow up an enemy's ships or installations; = fireship n. 1 (now historical); (b) a boat equipped with a water jet, used for firefighting from the water.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > fireship
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > vessel used to fight fires
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fire float1766
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > boat to fight fire in harbour
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a1615 N. Downton in S. Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) I. iv. xi. 510 There came driuing downe two Fire-boats, being towed by Frigats, whom we discouered before they came neare vs.
1735 Old Whig 5 June The King of Sardinia has sent a whole Fleet of Fire-boats, Galleys, &c. down the Po, to burn the Enemy's Bridges.
1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man II. ii. 51 Fire-boats were launched from the various ports.
1855 E. Boxer Let. 6 Mar. in 3rd Rep. Select Comm. on Army before Sebastopol 447 in Parl. Papers 1854–5 (H.C. 218) IX. i. 1 Vessels having portable fire engines are to keep them..in immediate readiness for service; and a boat's crew, to be called the ‘Fire boat's crew’, to be told off in every ship.
1915 N.Y. Tribune 8 May 9/2 The fire-boats William J. Gaynor and Zophar Mills succeeded in directing streams into the hold at long range.
1955 M. Baldwin Hist. Crusades I. xvii. 557 The Moslems launched a fire boat which was blown into the Byzantine fleet riding at anchor in close array.
2001 Maritime Reporter & Engin. News Sept. 21/1 The fireboats will be powered by twin Caterpillar 3126B engines.
2014 W. R. Nester French & Indian War iii. ix. 313 The sailors managed to cast grappling hooks onto the fire boats and to tow them to shallow waters where they spectacularly burned out.
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