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Photograph of Fire Fighter
Photograph by Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ), CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

FIREFIGHTER

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“Fire Fighter is a fireboat which served the New York City Fire Department from 1938 through 2010, serving with Marine Companies 1, 8 and 9 during her career. The most powerful diesel-electric fireboat in terms of pumping capacity when built in 1938, Fire Fighter fought more than 50 major fires during her career, including fires aboard the SS Normandie in 1942 and the SS El Estero in 1943, the 1973 collision of the Esso Brussels and SS Sea Witch, and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.”

Wikipedia article Fire Fighter (fireboat), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 63 National Register listings published here for Richmond County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. St. George Ferry Terminal, Staten Island, New York, 11944
  • When was it listed? June 1989
  • Category. structure
  • National Register reference number. 89001447 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Maps showing this location

9 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89001447 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Richmond CountyAll 63 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.