Builder John H. Mathis Status In reserve Construction started 1954 | Laid down 1954 Length 39 m | |
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Name Marine 1 John D. McKean Operator New York City Fire Department Homeport Foot Of Bloomfield St., Manhattan | ||
John D. McKean is a fireboat that served the New York City Fire Department as Marine Company 1. She is named after John D. Mckean, who died in a 1953 steam explosion while trying to save a predecessor fireboat, the George B McClellan. She cost $1.4 million.
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Operational history
John D. McKean was one of the fire boats, along with Fire Fighter and the retired John J. Harvey, that responded to Manhattan during the September 11th attacks to supply firefighters with water after water mains broke following the collapses. The boat was also involved in rescuing the passengers of the US Airways Flight 1549 accident.
She fought a notable fire at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, in 1991. She helped rescue passengers from US Airways Flight 1549, when she made an emergency landing on the Hudson River in 2009.
Museum vessel
In 2010, John D. McKean was retired and put in reserve status, after being replaced by a new vessel, the Three Forty Three, named for the FDNY members who lost their lives in the line of duty on September 11, 2001.
On March 2, 2016, FDNY sold the John D. McKean at auction for $57,400. The vessel was purchased by Edward Taylor and Michael Kaphan, partners in several restaurants, who plan to open the vessel as a floating museum, in Sleepy Hollow, New York.