Replacing the Kevin Kane with a SAFEBOAT

[firebuffkevin]

Recent article on the BravestL

https://www.nwyachting.com/pdf/feb11/article_1.pdf   

 

[firebuffkevin]

Any word on delivery of the new Marine 6?  Is it in NYC yet?  Does anybod know how it is/was being transported from the west coast to the east coast?

 

[raybrag]

I forget where I saw it, but within the last week or so I read on the internet that it had been delivered to FDNY, and was at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, after a cross-country trip by truck.  Can anybody verify?

 

[Atlas]

Yes, its here. I wrote about it the other day on the website.

 

[Atlas]

Here is the link: http://nycfire.net/forums/index.php/topic,9637.0.html

 

[raybrag]

Thanks, Chief . . . I knew I had seen it, but couldn't break thru the cobwebs in my brain to give the citation.

 

[FDNY150]

I'll try to get pictures in the next few days.

 

[Atlas]

#150 don't go crazy yet trying to get photos, it might not be in the water yet! 

 

[FDNY150]

Boss, I think you know me well enough that I'm a little off kilter. I'll take a ride over Thursday after my day tour. If it's there, I'll take pix. If not, I'll find out when it's going in the water and I'll  go back.

 

[Atlas]

150 - It was taken out of the water so that it could be reassembled before being returned to the water. Target date is this coming weekend from what I been told.

 

[FDNY150]

Boat's in the water. I'll take a ride over Sunday on my way in to get some shots.

 

[raybrag]

Hey, 150 . . .

Did you ever get a chance to get those pictures?  If so, how about sharing them!

 

[FDNY150]

I'll try to have them up for you in the next few days. I haven't gotten around to uploading/cropping yet. I got a lot of stuff on the camera. PS, I got some close up shots, nothing too spectacular.

 

[FDNY150]

Ask and you shall receive. These are the best I could get given conditons and location.

Here's the new boat with the McKean and the Firefighter in the background.


Stern view,

 

[raybrag]

Thanx, 150!  ;D

Any idea when it will go in service?

 

[68jk09]

Once again a similar situation like the John D. McKean what happens to the name of the Kevin Kane ? these boats were named to remember LODD FFs......the name should carry on.

 

[firebuffkevin]

Once again a similar situation like the John D. McKeon what happens to the name of the Kevin Kane ? these boats were named to remember LODD FFs......the name should carry on.

There is a strong tradition in boating, that when you name a boat, that name stays with the vessel.  There is a "superstition" that if you change it, it brings danger and bad luck.  I would think that if the McKeon becomes a tug, as it is supposed to, it would continue to be the John D. McKeon.    Firefighter is to become a museum.

I don't know the plans for the Kevin Kane.     

 

[68jk09]

kfd.....that is good info.....that probably accounts for the fact that there are so many pleasure boats named so&so 2.....i thought that would be a good situation for the McKean & could apply to the Kane just add the number 2. ..............P.S...i like the Marine 6 Patch.....it resembles one of my tattoos w/the R*2 rope surrounded Blue Patch.

 

[L 147]

Once again a similar situation like the John D. McKean what happens to the name of the Kevin Kane ? these boats were named to remember LODD FFs......the name should carry on.

They never used the name Alfred E. Ronaldson or John P Devaney again, both died LODD, two real great guys. They put their names on those two pieces of junk.

 

[tbendick]

Also noticed a comment that FDNY has money for a 2nd boat just like this one but want to test this one out before ordering.