G-1

1886 Miller Bros./C.F. Elmes


Delivered: 7/29/1886 or 11/1886

Status: Stripped of brass & boilers and sunk in Lake Michigan on 12/29/1927

Apparatus Assignments

Engine Co. 37 (“Geyser:” 11/29/1886 - 1891)
Reserve fireboat (1891 - 12/3/1891)
Engine Co. 41 (“Geyser:” 12/3/1891 - 1895)
Engine Co. 37 ("Geyser:" 1895 - 3/31/1903)
Engine Co. 41 (“Denis J. Swenie:” 3/31/1903 - 5/1909)
Engine Co. 71 (“Denis J. Swenie:” 1909 - 3/15/1922)
Engine Co. 71 ("Denis J. Swenie:" 8/1922 - 3/1925)
Reserve Fireboat (3/1925 - 1927)

Additional spare assignments for this apparatus may appear on the Company History page

Apparatus Notes

Pump manufacturer was either Clapp & Jones or C.F. Elmes; might have been 4000 gpm; carried 3,950’ of 2-1/2” & 3-1/2” hose; rebuilt in 1895; Engine 41 start date may have been 2/19/1903; listed as 5000gpm by 1918; blew out steam chest on 3/15/1922 and repaired with parts from reserve fireboat fleet

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