Retired fireboat

While passing through Algoma, Wisconsin on a winter day a couple of years back, I noticed a red boat docked in the Ahnapee River near Algoma’s harbor. It turned out to be an old Chicago Fire Department boat, probably on its way to a scrap yard.

This boat is named after Joseph Medill, newspaper editor and mayor of Chicago in the mid-to-late 1800s. The school of journalism at Northwestern University's Chicago campus is also named for Medill.

Even though faded, the red of the fire boat contrasted with the blue of the reflected sky in the river on this bright winter morning. I took quite a few shots of the docked boat from nearly every angle I could.

Click on pictures to enlarge. Photographs © 2005 James Jordan.