Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (fireboat)

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The Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. was Baltimore, Maryland's first diesel fireboat. She operated from 1956 to 2007.[1] She was able to pump 12,000 gallons per minute. After her 2007 retirement, she sat in a scrapyard, but in 2020, the decision was made to cannibalize her wheelhouse and deckhouse and turn them into a museum exhibit.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Theo Hayes. Historic Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. fireboat preserved in Fire Museum, WBAL-TV, 2020-01-24. Retrieved on 2020-01-26. “The boat was built in 1956 and for 51 years, it patrolled Baltimore waterways.”