300 years of history for $2, plus a boat ride...
...and we missed it! At least we got to take pictures for free. Today the Working Watercraft Committee of New York and New Jersey and North River Historic Ship Society were offering tours of the working New York harbor waterfront, aboard replica paddleboats, culminating in a parade of vessels including 4 cruise ships and the retired Fireboat John J. Harvey, which came out of retirement during the attack on the World Trade Center, first helping with the evacuation, then providing water when the water mains there were knocked out. We didn't find out about it in time. Maybe next year. The John J. Harvey joined FDNY in 1931, and retired in 1994. She began a second career as an educational vessel after being restored to complete working order in 1999. She was hardly the first of her kind; the first FDNY fireboat, the William F. Havermeyer, went into service in 1875.
(Blogger's note, August, 2003: The fireboat shown here, originally identified as the John J. Harvey, is actually the John D. McKean, still an active FDNY vessel.)
Blogrolling, Chapter 5: Weblogs.com
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