[6] On July 25, 1909, Abram S. Hewitt and David A. Boody fought a cargo fire aboard the Ward Line steamship Vigilancia.

[7][8] On August 14, 1913, a fire was discovered at a large oil storage yard, on what was then Long Island City, and the Abram S. Hewitt was sent to try to put it out.

[9] While extinguishing the fire her "bow gun", her frontmost water cannon, burst from her footings, flying into the air, and striking Brereton E. Johnson, the firefighter assigned to it.

[10] Although he was burdened by heavy fire equipment he was able to swim to a barge, where he clung to a boathook lowered to him by a crew member.

On April 29, 1930, the Abram S. Hewitt responded when Cornelius Vanderbilt III's luxurious yacht, the Winchester, was set ablaze following a boiler explosion.