PHOTOS: A Baltimore City fire boat used in the 1960s is now sitting on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, offshore of Lewes and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware—and unlike many shipwrecks, it was put there on purpose.
The fire boat Mayor J. Harold Grady is the newest addition to Delaware’s artificial reef system. On Monday, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Division of Fish and Wildlife added the fire boat and a World War II-era tugboat onto the well-known reef site that also includes more than 700 old New York City subway cars.
The reef’s newest addition, Baltimore’s longtime fire boat, was named for Baltimore’s mayor J. Harold Grady, who was serving at the time the vessel was commissioned in 1960.