New type vessels with all-welded steel hulls are anticipated to yield largest water output per dollar of investment at $257,395 construction cost; length oa 58 ft 5 1/2 in.; beam oa 17 ft 2 1/2 in.; draft 5 ft 10 in.; two dual purpose General Motors Series 6-110 diesel engines propel boats and drive two 2250-gpm De Laval fire pumps. (see also Diesel Progress v 19 n 6 June 1953 p 62)
Alden designs Long Beach fireboat
Mar Eng
Marine Engineering ; 58 , n 3
1953
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