Rescue/Fire boats "Leschi" & "Alki" at Fire Station #5, Seattle, Washington
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N 47° 36.223 W 122° 20.325
10T E 549702 N 5272468
Fire and rescue station located on the waterfront of downtown Seattle, Washington.
Waymark Code: WM6F06
Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 05/24/2009
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The Alki was built in 1927 in Oakland, California and went into service for the Ciity of Seattle Fire Department. The 124-foot Alki, powered by World War II surplus engines, at top speed, the boat can get close to 12 knots. The Alki has pumps that are driven by 12 surplus tank engines,also World War II vintage.
Length: 123'6"
Beam: 26'
Draft: 11'6"
Hull: Riveted steel
Speed: 13 knots @ 1300 rpm
Engines: Originally triple-screws and seven 350-hp Winton gasoline engines, six of which were connected with centrifugal fire pumps. The seventh engine, centrally located, was for propulsion only. In 1947 switched to 2 Cleveland diesels @ 500 hp
Pumps: hydraulically operated elevator monitor tower and pumps capable of throwing 16,200 gallons of water a minute, 6 below each driven by twin 671s.
Crew: 5, all EMTs: pilot, engineer, assistant engineer, deck hand, fire officer
The ALKI is also designed as a floating fuel point to re-supply land-based emergency apparatus - it carries more than 8,000 gallons of diesel fuel
The Leschi, which is 108 feet long with a water pumping capacity of 20-thousand gallons per minute and a top speed of 14 knots.
Leschi's propulsion and pumping power come from two pairs of identical diesels. Two MTU 8v-4000 M71 diesels drive ZF W4610 gears turning 72-inch, four-blade propellers. Each of these engines is rated to deliver 1,550 hp at 2,000 rpm, giving the vessel a top speed of 14 knots.
The second pair, rated at 1,440 hp at 1,900 rpm, drives the four 5,000-gpm water pumps from Fire Fighting Systems (FFS) of Moss, Norway. Leschi's two Key Power thrusters, rated at 200 hp in the bow and 100 hp in the stern, are driven by a pair of power takeoffs mounted to the front end of the main propulsion engines.
Dimensions: L: 108' B: 26'10" D: 15'
Draft: 10' (full load)
Designer: Jensen Maritime Consultants, Seattle, Wash.
Builder: Dakota Creek Industries, Anacortes, Wash.
Mission: Firefighting, mobile platform for emergency medical treatment and command center, mobile pump and fuel station, and response to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) emergencies
Crew size: 4
HULL:
- Displacement; Steel
PERFORMANCE:
- 14 knots (full load)
PROPULSION:
- (2) MTU 8v4000, M71 (main); 1,550 hp at 2,000 rpm
- ZF W4610 gears
- 72", 4-blade props
- Key Power, hydraulic thrusters (200-hp bow, 100-hp stern)
- (2) 99-kW Northern Lights generators, powered by 6-cylinder John Deere diesels
NAVIGATION:
- Furuno integrated Navnet system with 4-way split screen (radar, sounder, GPS, AIS chartplotter)
COMMUNICATIONS:
- Hose-McCann ship's intercom, loudhailer, PA
- StandardHorizon VHF radio
- Motorola 800-Mhz departmental radio
- Fixed apparatus radios: 3
- (5) portable units
- (2+) 450-Mhz motorola personal 2-way radios for shipboard firefighting (penetrates steel better than 800 Mhz).
- KR Nida with Mitsubishi antenna satphone
- Cat 5, coaxial and fiber optic shipboard cabling throughout most of the vessel
CAPACITIES:
- Fuel: 20,940 gallons
- Water: 1,200 gallons (storage capacity)
FIREFIGHTING & EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS:
- (2) MTU DD 8v4000 M71 firepump engines; 1,440 BHP at 1,950 rpm
- Fire monitors, piping, manifolds, controls, foam system, water fog firefighting systems
- Total pumping capacity: 20,000 gpm
- (4) ABS Production fire pumps; 5,000 gpm made for FFS
- Individual monitors: (1) 7,000 gpm, (2) 5,500 gpm, (2) 3,000 gpm, (3) 1,500 gpm
- Touch-screen control for FFS system: FFS and Siemens
- Aqueous Fire 6,000-gallon firefighting foam capacity
- Baum's Novacool foam
- Coppus 5,000 cfm portable ventilation fans
- Ram 980 cfm
- Mine Safety Appliances handheld air monitors
- Orion 4-gas detectors (O2, CO, H2S, combustible gas)
- Radiation detectors (several makes under testing)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
- Mine Safety Appliances SCBA systems
- Max-Air 180 compressed-air bottle filling station
- Allied Systems 55' crane ladder
- Workskiff aluminum skiffs
- Mercury rigid-hull inflatable
- Honda 50-hp outboard skiff propulsion (1 each)
CBRNE SYSTEM:
- Design, system integration and build: Dakota Creek Industries
- Compressors, fans, filters: Hunter Mfg.
Name of the Lifeboat or station: Station 5, Seattle Fire Department
Number of the Lifeboat: 2
Adress:
925 Alaska Way
Seattle , WA United States
98199
Callsign Marifoon: Not listed
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