@MCLegoboy said:
"Bro, this is just a battleship repurposed for fighting Godzilla sized fires.

I like it."

I like the way you think!
...Look out! It's Gojira fighting (insert other monster here)! Humanity is doomed by giant men in rubber suits!

This is a nice boat.

After it’s done launching axles at the fire, the crew will take their fire fighting lunch.

I've never seen this one before, its cool!

Finally a Lego fire fighting ship that actually looks like a fire fighting ship! Lego has come up with various strange designs for fireboats, this and the 2010 one I think it was were the only realistic looking ones.

So THAT'S where I got that 'gun configuration' from...sorta', I tended to add 3647s in there somewhere...

Plus, though I never had 'the hull', a friend of mine had the 'blue brother' of it...and the weights...and...

That ship is prepared. When equipped with multiple Gatling guns, it’s ready.

I got this set as a kid, and it was the first time I saw axles or other technic parts. I thought they represented huge hoses. This was one of three boats at the time, if I remember right. The boat actually floats, and comes with a weight to attach to the bottom to keep it upright in the water. I recall that I liked it, but was also disappointed that is was not minifig scale.
Actually, I have 775, US version of this.

Wow. I totally forgot until I saw this set how often I used those Technic pieces for lasers on my spaceships.

Simple, but effective.

Got this for my birthday or Christmas that year. Still have most if not all of it. Except maybe the ballast weights.

@FlagsNZ - me too!!

Not minifig scale? Doesn't matter, a lot of the Town vehicles from 1978 weren't either.

Out of the parts, notably another of those trans clear macaroni curves sneaking in there.

Still have this (with box). The best thing is that these ships actually float. A counter weight in the set, that could be mounted under the hull, was also the mounting point for a simple motor.

I like those hull parts. They're very simple but allow for expansion to longer sizes easily whilst still being floatable.

That said, I had to look twice again to check if this wasn't just a second vintage set like last sunday.

A set from a good year! Though as a result from that, I got its successor (4025) a few years later.

It's interesting to see how different those two were, despite being basically the same size. Just imagine how huge this one would have been if it was minifig scale....

My first LEGO set. Received it for Christmas that year.

@Brickalili said:
" @namekuji said:
"Did this battleship start the fire?"

Nah, it was always burnin’ since the world’s been turnin’ "
We didn't light it, but we tried to fight it.

I still have the parts of that ship - nice ship hull with two attachable underwater stabilizira to use it in your bathtub.

I still have two of these from when i was a kid. I loved playing with them outside in the snow and making bobsled runs in the huge piles by the sidewalk and driveway. I also played with them in the puddles in our dirt driveway. The hull pieces even survived getting inadvertently run over by my dad in our 3500 pound Chevy. The bow was cracked but still whole, the rest had the railing snapped off or took no damage at all!!! I was so impressed!

@HoodedOne said:
"Still have this (with box). The best thing is that these ships actually float. A counter weight in the set, that could be mounted under the hull, was also the mounting point for a simple motor."
Interestingly, Lego didn't make motors for that themselves.....but the instructions mentioned you could get those at the toy store. And the ones from Playmobil, which they still make to this day, happened to fit perfectly! Nowadays it would be unthinkable for Lego to do something like that....

One of my first ever LEGO Sets. Bought by my Parents as a Birthday Gift. I have fond Memories playing with it for Hours in the Bath Tub. Thank you for the wonderful Memories