[2] She was 132 feet (40 m) long, and her pumps could throw 9,000 gallons per minute, at pressure of 300 pounds per square inch.

Standard Shipbuilding Corporation of Shooter's Island built John Purroy Mitchel.

The two fireboats pumped water into the burning hold, and Byron reached the quarantine station under her own power.

[3] At 02:00 hrs on July 5, 1927, a fire was discovered among cotton bales in the number 6 cargo hold of RMS Ebro as she approached New York.

She docked in the North River just before 10:00 hrs, disambarked her passengers, and then John Purroy Mitchel and Thomas Willett fought the fire.