John J. Harvey

John J. Harvey is a fireboat that served the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) from her launch in 1931 until she was taken out of service in 1994. She is described as one of the most powerful fireboats ever built, able to pump up to 18,000 gallons of water a minute, and she was named for a marine fireman killed when a ship exploded during a fire. Over her career she assisted at major harbour fires, among them the 1932 Cunard Line pier fire, the burning of the Normandie in 1942 and the 1966 collision of the tankers Alva Cape and Texaco Massachusetts. Sold at auction in 1999 to a consortium of preservationists, she was restored and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. After the attacks of September 11, 2001 she was recalled to duty as Marine 2 and pumped water at Ground Zero for 80 hours while the fire mains were out. She is now moored on the Hudson River at Pier 66 in Manhattan.