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Zophar Mills

The Zophar Mills was a fireboat operated by the Fire Department of New York City from 1903 to 1958. She was the department's first iron-hulled vessel.

She was commissioned on April 14, 1883, and retired on September 4, 1934.

According to some accounts, she was the first fireboat called to the burning of the PS General Slocum, where over a thousand people lost their lives. Other accounts say the Abram S. Hewitt was the first fireboat to be dispatched.

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