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A fact from 1900 Hoboken Docks fire appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 March 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that as a result of the 1900 Hoboken Docks Fire in New Jersey, the size of portholes on ships was increased so that they could be used as a means of escape in an emergency?

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There is, however, a "Pier C Park" on the northern side of the disaster area, which juts out into the water.^{[citation needed]}

Ocean liner losses[edit]

Many of the deaths occurred as the flames reached several of NDL's transatlantic steamships docked at the piers, including the Saale, Main, and Bremen. These ocean liners, which caught fire while their coal-fired steam engines were cold, became deathtraps for dozens of seamen and visitors who were unable to reach safety on deck, squeeze through portholes, or otherwise escape.^{[citation needed]}
Although she was afire at several places, fireboats soon put out those fires, and in the end she suffered little serious damage.^{[citation needed]}

Aftermath[edit]

The new steel piers were known as Hoboken Pier Nos. 1, 2, and 3. All of the damaged ocean liners returned to maritime service, Saale under a different name (the SS J. L. Luckenbach).^{[citation needed]}