John D. McKean (fireboat)
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 New York City Fire Department
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| Name: | Marine 1 John D. McKean |
| Operator: | New York City Fire Department |
| Builder: | John H. Mathis |
| Laid down: | 1954 |
| Homeport: | Foot Of Bloomfield St., Manhattan |
| Status: | In reserve |
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Predecessor: George B. McClellan Successor: Three Forty Three |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 334.75 gross tons |
| Length: | 129 ft (39 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Height: | 47.5 ft (14.5 m) |
| Draft: | 9.5 ft (2.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Twin 1,000 HP Enterprise direct reversible diesel engines |
| Speed: | 16 mph |
| Capacity: | 19,000 gpm |
| Crew: | 7 |
| Time to activate: | 1.5 minutes |
Predecessor: George B. McClellan
John D. McKean is a fireboat that served the New York City Fire Department as Marine Company 1. She is named after John D. Mckean, who died in a 1953 steam explosion while trying to save a predecessor fireboat, the George B McClellan. She cost $1.4 million.
John D. McKean was one of the fire boats, along with Fire Fighter and the retired John J. Harvey, that responded to Manhattan during the September 11th attacks to supply firefighters with water after water mains broke following the collapses. The boat was also involved in rescuing the passengers of the US Airways Flight 1549 accident.
She fought a notable fire at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, in 1991. She helped rescue passengers from US Airways Flight 1549, when she made an emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009.
In 2010, John D. McKean was retired and put in reserve status, after being replaced by a new vessel, the Three Forty Three, named for the FDNY members who lost their lives in the line of duty on September 11, 2001.
On March 2, 2016, FDNY sold the John D. McKean at auction for $57,400. The vessel was purchased by Edward Taylor and Michael Kaphan, partners in several restaurants, who plan to open the vessel as a floating museum, in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
The vessel was named after a FDNY sailor, an engineer on the fireboat George B. McClellan. He died when he heroically stayed at his post when his vessel was wrecked by an explosion.
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