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.

[3] On August 14, 1927, a tugboat of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, towing two barges of railway rolling stock, collided with a train of rock barges towed by Henry F.

[4] Thomas Willett responded, when one barge was sunk and others damaged, saving their crew.

As of 2021 she survives in Morris Canal Basin, Jersey City, as a floating office for Statue Cruises.