National Historic Landmark · fireboat · New Orleans, Louisiana

Deluge

Fireboat in Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana. Added to the National Register in 1989, and a National Historic Landmark.

National Historic Landmark Listed 1989

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What it is

Wikipedia · Deluge (fireboat, 1923)

Deluge is a fireboat in New Orleans, Louisiana. Built by Johnson Drydock & Shipbuilding Co. of New Orleans in 1923, she was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989. She was the nation's second oldest fireboat at the time.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places

Property type	Structure
Address	Mississippi River N of Canal St. Algiers Ferry, New Orleans, LA
County	Orleans County
Listed	Jun 30, 1989
Reference number	89001427
Type of place	fireboat
Designations	National Historic Landmark
Contributing resources	1 structures

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

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Address	Mississippi River N of Canal St. Algiers Ferry, New Orleans, LA
Coordinates	29.95593, -90.05495 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unit	New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park · 1 mi · on Park Atlas

Listing on the Register does not open the door. Unless a museum or park runs it, treat this as private property and see it from the sidewalk.

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Reference

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Sources

Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 89001427. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.