File:The Beta II, a fireboat launched in London in 1906.jpg

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It was the new Chief Officer (another Captain-but a former Royal Navy captain), Capt. Wells who introduced a vessel having both pumping and propelling machinery in one hull. It was a new age in London’s fire-floats. Built to Well’s design, commissioned in 1900, Alpha II was the first of four-vessels brought into service between 1900 and 1912. The other craft being Beta II, Gamma II and Delta II.
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