Governor Alfred E. Smith

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The Fireboat Governor Alfred E. Smith (built 1961, 8000gpm, ex Marine 6 & 8) is back in service at Brooklyn Bridge Park as a tourist bar "Fireboat".

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Governor Alfred E. Smith Boat in Brooklyn

On spotting a boat named for former New York Governor and presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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The firehouse in Pittsburgh that I buffed at 25 Engine/25 Truck in Lawrenceville closed in 1974. It is now The Roberto Clement Museum. But shortly after it closed, an investor wanted to buy it from the City and turn it into a bar and restaurant. The deal fell through when they couldn't get a liquor license. Apparently someone didn't understand the "process" of obtaining something from the City.

Reportedly, one of the retired greybeards from the house observed " Gee, that's strange, it didn't need a license when it was a firehouse". He must have been thinking about my old pal "The Spider".

 

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I believe that when the Smith was an active fireboat in Brooklyn and it was one of the fireboats that responded to the Ship Collision of the Container Ship Sea Witch and the Tanker Alva Cape in the Narrows just north of the Verrazano Bridge. The Fireboat "Firefighter 1" pushed
in-between the ships that both were burning and rescue the crew that had taken refuge on the fantail = stern of the ship, I was a fireman in the now long closed Engine 27 in Lower Manhattan's Lower West Side. We were relocated to Brooklyn and were redirected into a store parking lot that was located at the end of Bay Parkway to help protect the parking lot and store that were threatened by the massive oil fire burning on top of the water. We could clearly see the fireboats attacking the burning ships that had drifted South under the Verrazano Bridge. the Alfred RE. Smith was one of those fireboats. It think the ship collision was in 1975. I have a photo posted below. Captain Bob Rainey engine 26 retired