Brannspøyte fra Stavanger

On 31 May 1938, the Stavanger City Council made a recommendation to the city council to allocate money for a new fire pump. The boat was named Nøkk, and was delivered as building number 148 from Rosenberg Mekaniske Verksted on 11 September 1939, and was put into full service on 20 December of the same year. From that day on, a journal has been written every single day up until the present day for both deck and engine.

The five years of war in World War II were a very active period for Nøkk. From the journal, one can read that there was hardly a day without an assignment. It could be assistance with fires, bilge pumping or towing. The municipal water system was rather poor at the time, so it was a good thing that Nøkk was built with a water capacity of 14,000 liters per minute. After the war, Nøkk helped put out a number of large fires in the city.

From 1983 the boat was incorporated into the port's oil spill response. It had installed some equipment on board, such as oil booms, etc. Nøkk had a crew of three men, a driver, a machinist and a deckhand. On 31 April 2004 Nøkk was decommissioned after 65 years of operation. The Engøyholmen Coastal Culture Center Foundation took over the old fireboat.