Fireboat Moku Ahi

Captain Ryan C. Davis , Commanding

Specifications:

110’ Long / 22’ beam / 6’ draft

Power plant: (2) six cylinder Detroit Diesels

4 Fire cannons (2 aft, 1 foreward, 1 on the conning tower) total output: 7,500 Gallons Per Minute (GPM) flow rate

History:

She was originally an ocean fire fighting boat out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (1990 - 2014)
In Hawaiian, one definition of Moku is ship or boat. Ahi is fire. So, Moku Ahi is, literally, ”fire boat.”

Another definition in ancient Hawaiian is “fire island”

The word mokuahi was originally used to refer to a steamship.

Moku Ahi was built by Moss Point Marine (now part of VT Halter Marine) of Escatawpa, Mississippi. Her keel was laid next to and built to the same specifications as the US Coast Guard 87’ cutters. But bigger. Also, with the ability to land on beaches for fire support.

Leaving Mississippi, she sailed through the Panama canal and over to Pearl Harbor. She arrived in Honolulu in early January 1993. Officially Retired from active Hawaiian fire service in 2018 . She has taken a new mission to escort hazardous cargo, and help to

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