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| Title | Fireboat ALKI, n.d. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n. d. |
| Contextual Notes | The ALKI was a fireboat of steel construction built for the city of Seattle and launched in 1927 or 1928 from Oakland, California. Her dimensions were 123.6 x 26 x 11.6. She was originally propelled by triple screws and seven 350-horsepower Winton gas engines. Six of those gas engines were connected to the water pumps, and only 1 was reserved for propulsion. Her equipment included a hydraulically operated elevator monitor tower, and her pumps could throw 17,000 gallons of water per minute (p. 384). Ivar Haglund helped to preserve her by pestering the Seattle fire chief (p. 532). [Notes from Gordon Newell, ed., The H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1966)] |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Alki (Fireboat)
Fireboats--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Transportation Collection
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| Order Number | TRA0176 |
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| Negative Number | UW7600 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Ships Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2001. |
