The ''David Campbell'' was a long-serving fireboat built in 1928 for Oregon's

Portland Fire & Rescue Portland Fire and Rescue Bureau, also known as the Portland Fire Bureau, and sometimes informally the Portland Fire Department, is the principle fire suppression, prevention, and rescue agency of the City of Portland, Oregon, United States ...

. She underwent an extensive rebuild, in 1976. In 2010 Portland acquired a new smaller, faster fireboat, the '' Eldon Trinity'', named after the two children who were thrown off the Sellwood Bridge in 2009, when it took the ''David Campbell'' 44 minutes to get to scene to provide medical care. The ''David Campbell'' had two identical sister ships, the '' Mike Laudenklos'' and the '' Karl Gunster''. She remained in operation as late as 2012.

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* {{Commonscat-inline, David Campbell (ship, 1927) Fireboats of Oregon