title: Fireboats of Milwaukee
text: # Fireboats of Milwaukee
  
  As a significant Great Lakes port there has been a need for fireboats in Milwaukee.
  
  Fireboats in Milwaukee :
  
  | name | entered service | retired | notes |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Cataract | 1889 | 1903 | |
  | fireboat 17 | 1893 | 1930 |
  | fireboat 23 | 1897 | 1922 | |
  | fireboat 15 | 1903 | 1952 |
  | fireboat 29 | 1906 | 1948 |
  | Torrent | 1922 | 1949 | Presviously served a private railroad in Two Harbors, Minnesota |
  | Deluge | 1949 | 1984 | |
  | Roamer | 1963 | 1984 | Initially powered by waterjets, her propulsion had to be converted to conventional propellers. |
  | fireboat 1 | 1984 | 1993 | This was a military surplus amphibious truck |
  | Fireboat 1 | 2007 | | Metalcraft Marine 36' fireboat |
  