The Fire Brigade’s Thames fire boat was brought in to tackle a night-time blaze onboard a catamaran moored at Trinity Buoy Wharf at Blackwall.
It arrived from its base at Lambeth when the alarm was raised at 12.45pm on October 2 when fire broke out in the engine room of the catamaran passenger vessel moored at the jetty The engine room was destroyed.
The UK Coastguard and the RNLI at Tower Pier also sent boats to assist.
Six fire engines were brought in with around 40 firefighters from Poplar, Shadwell, Plaistow and other fire stations. The blaze was under control within half-an-hour and no-one was reported injured.
Trinity Buoy Wharf is at the end of an isolated peninsula at Bow Creek where the Lea tributary goes into the Thames, with its narrow access road for emergency vehicles.
Fire investigators are looking into the cause of the blaze.
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