The Christopher Wheatley is a fireboat delivered to the Chicago Fire Department in 2011.When she was delivered in April 2011, she was the first new fireboat to serve the city in sixty years.She replaced the Victor L. Schlaeger. The vessel was built in Wheatley, Ontario, and was named after a young Chicago firefighter who had died in the line of duty in August 2010. The Fire Department maintains crew on the vessel 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The vessel was designed by Canadian Naval Architects Robert Allan Ltd. and built in the Canadian shipyards of Hike Metal Products.