1) Boat 2) Boat type 3) Dockside emergency vessel 4) Dockside flame fighter 5) Emergency craft 6) Harbor blaze fighter 7) Harbor protector 
A fireboat is a specialized watercraft and with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were tugboats, retrofitted with firefighting equipment. Older designs derived from tugboats and modern fireboats more closely resembling seafaring ships can both be found in se...
vessel used in fire fighting in port cities. Basically a large tugboat, the fireboat is equipped with powerful pumps capable of producing streams of ...
[n] - a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront
noun a boat equipped to fight fires on ships or along a waterfront
a powered vessel equipped to fight fires on boats, docks, shores, etc.