Engine 19/Boat Tender 2 firehouse 355 W 25th Street Chelsea, Manhattan
Engine 19 organized 355 W 25th Street former firehouse volunteer Mazeppa Engine 48 1865
Engine 19 moved to 338 W 25th Street 1879
Engine 19 returned to 355 W 25th Street 1880
Engine 19 disbanded 1947
Boat Tender 2 organized 355 W 25th Street at Engine 19 1893
Boat Tender 2 disbanded 1909
355 W 25th Street 1938:
Engine 19 1939 WLF 1000 GPM pumper:
Engine 19 LODDs:
FF David McBride, February 17, 1882
FF Thomas Madigan, box 66-44-432, 654 W 30th Street, falling wall, April 27, 1904
Never forget.
Notes: Engine 19's firehouse was built in 1864 by volunteer Mazeppa Engine 48.
Mazeppa Engine 48 organized Fitzroy Road and 19th Street 1828
Mazeppa Engine 48 moved to W 13th Street and 6th Avenue 1842
Mazeppa Engine 48 moved to 152 W 26th Street 1843
Mazeppa Engine 48 moved to W 24th Street and 7th Avenue 1851
Mazeppa Engine 48 moved to 227 (355) W 25th Street 1864
Pre-FDNY volunteer companies selected nicknames for their respective companies. Engine 48 was known as "Mazeppa" Engine 48. "Mazeppa" was a name associated with bravery and strength.
Ivan Stepanovich Mazeppa was a Cossack "hetman," or leader, during the late 1600s. Mazeppa built numerous churches, libraries and educational institutions throughout Ukraine during his rule. He bravely stood up to the Russian Czar, Peter the Great, and was the subject of operas, poems and songs. Byron's poem "Mazeppa" details Mazeppa's affair in his youth with a Polish noblewoman and his subsequent punishment, being tied naked to a wild horse by her angry husband. As the legend goes, Mazeppa, though almost killed by the experience, was carried by the horse to the Cossacks of the Ukrainian steppes, where he eventually became ruler.
Annual report (1800s) - Mazeppa Engine, No. 48:
"Foreman, Charles Cowan. Located 163 West Twenty-fourth street; performs duty in the second and third districts. House ordinary, and too small; new house building at No. 227 West Twenty-fifth street; engine second class, piano, crane-neck style, 8-inch cylinders, 9-inch stroke, in good condition; built in 1855, by James Smith; formerly belonged to Engine Company No. 40; present number of men, 50; 200 feet of hose bad, and 400 feet good. Also, a hose tender, in ordinary condition." - the History Box