Floating Fire Engines

Fire service historian and author

Roger Mardon

www.romar.org.uk

Published 2006

Price £14.95 ISBN 0-900443-12-X

Headleys of Ashford

Soft cover, 151 pages and over 75 photographs in black & white and colour

Although this book starts with the early days of manual fire floats, it concentrates on mechanically propelled fireboats carrying mechanically powered pumps as operated by the public fire brigades of the UK. It navigates its way from their origins, via the war years, to the present generation of fire service vessels. The names of more than 350 fire service boats are given and details of a few fireboats used by industrial concerns are also included. An epilogue remembers the gallant crews whose finest hours were served on board these craft during the Second World War.

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Floating Fire Engines

A study of British fireboats 1833-2005 #018

By Geoffrey Cooper, MIFireE

Contents include

• Chapter One - Early Days

• Chapter Two - 1900-1939 (with a little leeway)

• Chapter Three - The Early War Years

• Chapter Four - Nationalisation and the River Thames

Formation

• Chapter Five - Operational Considerations

• Chapter Six -The Later War Years

• Chapter Seven - Post-war Developments

• Chapter Eight - Fireflair

• Chapter Nine - Only Just Staying Afloat

• Chapter Ten - Listing Fireboats

• Chapter Eleven - Epilogue