Английская Википедия:CFAV Firebird (YTR 561)
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| Equipment: | 3 × manually-controlled Шаблон:Convert water cannon 2 × diesel-driven fire pumps, 2,500 gpm at 150 psi each |
CFAV Firebird was a Шаблон:Sclass2 in the Royal Canadian Navy designed by Robert Allan Ltd. Firebird was based in CFB Halifax, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] Her sister ship Шаблон:Ship is based in CFB Esquimalt.
Her three water cannons can fire water, or fire suppressant foam from her two 250 gallon tanks.[1]
Design and construction
According to the Canadian American Strategic Review the class was designed by naval architects Robert Allan Limited, and were built at Vancouver Shipyards in North Vancouver in 1978,[2] and later acquired by the Canadian Forces.
The two ships displaced Шаблон:Convert and were Шаблон:Convert long, with a beam of Шаблон:Convert and a draught of Шаблон:Convert. The ships were powered by two Шаблон:Convert azimuthing Z-drives and one hydraulic tunnel bow thruster. This gave the vessels a maximum speed of Шаблон:Convert. The ships had a crew of five firefighters.[3]
The Fire class was equipped with three manually-controlled Шаблон:Convert water cannons, two diesel-driven fire pumps capable of expending 2,500 gpm at 150 psi each.
Operational history
On 22 March 2001 a large container vessel, Kitano, one day out of New York City, requested help fighting an onboard fire after she had gone to sea.[4] Because of the extreme weather, Firebird was unable to leave the protected waters of Halifax Harbour to go to Kitano's aid; larger Navy vessels were dispatched instead.
Firebird suppressed a serious fire in Шаблон:HMCS's engine room in 2005.[1] In 2008, the firefighting ship aided the Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency department in extinguishing a fire aboard a former Canadian Coast Guard ship CCGS Tupper.[5]
In January 2014 it was announced that FirebirdШаблон:'s time available for firefighting operations would be cut back due to budget reductions and that all operations on weekends would be suspended.[5] It was announced that on 4 December 2014, Firebird was taken out of service and declared surplus.[3]
References
- Английская Википедия
- Fleet of the Royal Canadian Navy
- Fire-class fireboats
- 1978 ships
- Auxiliary ships of the Royal Canadian Navy
- Fireboats of Canada
- Transport in Halifax, Nova Scotia
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