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Former LAFD Fireboat No. 2, "Ralph J. Scott" (Los Angeles, California)

USA / California / Lomita / Los Angeles, California
 fire service, boat, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, historic landmark

Constructed in 1925 as L.A. City No. 2 at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Corporation shipyard and entering service on December 2, 1925 assigned to Station 112, the Ralph J. Scott served the Los Angeles Fire Department for just shy of eighty years as the first-due asset for waterfront fires and emergencies in the Port of Los Angeles. Originally powered by seven 300hp Winton gasoline engines, the triple-screw fireboat was capable of nineteen knots and had a pumping capacity of 10,200gpm through five deck monitors and two manifolds.

Heavily modernized in the 1960's and renamed in honor of Ralph J. Scott, Chief Engineer of the L.A. City Fire Department, the vessel was converted to diesel fuel and saw her pumping capacity upgraded to 18,600gpm as the growth in traffic at the Port of LA and the Port of Long Beach began to require a more formidable firefighting asset. Fighting no fewer than six major pier fires during her time on duty, the Scott was declared a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Remaining in service into the new millennium, the prospect of an expensive upcoming overhaul and the ship's advancing age led to her deactivation from duty in 2003, when she was replaced by the fireboat Warner L. Lawrence, a fully modernized multi-mission firefighting platform with a 38,000gpm pumping capacity.

Hauled out of the water in 2005 due to the deteriorating condition of her riveted hull, the Ralph Scott was placed into a specially made cradle alongside station 112 where she presently remains awaiting both funding and volunteer labor to restore her to her service appearance.

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Coordinates:   33°44'28"N   118°16'44"W

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