title: Zophar Mills
text: # Zophar Mills
  
  Zophar Mills was a fireboat operated by the Fire Department of New York City from 1883 to 1958. She was the department's first iron-hulled vessel and had a pumping capacity of 6,000 US gal (23,000 L; 5,000 imp gal) per minute.
  
  Around 1882, Zohpar Mills reportedly collided with a pier at Little 12th Street (as of 2022, the present-day location of Little Island at Pier 55).
  
  According to some accounts, she was the first fireboat called to the burning of General Slocum, where over a thousand people died. Other accounts say Abram S. Hewitt was the first fireboat to be dispatched.
  
  