John Purroy Mitchel (fireboat)
{{italic title|John Purroy Mitchel}}
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John Purroy Mitchel was a New York City Fire Department fireboat. She was named after former mayor of New York City John Purroy Mitchel. Grace Drennan, niece of Fire Commissioner Thomas J. Drennan, played a ceremonial role in the boat's launch on July 24, 1921. Her launch was also attended by current mayor John Francis Hylan.
John Purroy Mitchel was the city's first fireboat powered by fuel-oil, not coal. She was {{convert|132|ft}} long, and her pumps could throw 9,000 gallons per minute, at pressure of 300 pounds per square inch. One of her water cannons was mounted on top of a {{convert|26|ft}} tower.
Standard Shipbuilding Corporation of Shooter's Island built John Purroy Mitchel. She was budgeted at $220,000 but was completed under budget at $200,000.
File:Vasilefs Constantinos en Pirée APOR094304.jpg {{SS|Byron|1914|2}} in 1926]]
On October 5, 1926, the crew of the ocean liner {{SS|Byron|1914|2}} discovered a fire in one of her cargo holds. John Purroy Mitchel assisted {{ship||William J. Gaynor|fireboat|2}}, which was the first fireboat on scene. The two fireboats pumped water into the burning hold, and Byron reached the quarantine station under her own power.{{cite news |title=Fire-swept liner lands 697 safely |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1926-10-06 |pages=1, 4 |url-access=subscription |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1926/10/06/98395972.html?pageNumber=1 |access-date=2022-06-12}}
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 {{ship||Thomas Willett|fireboat|2}} fought the fire. It was extinguished by 14:00 hrs.{{Cite news |title=Conceals ship fire from passengers |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1927-07-06 |page=11 |access-date=2024-03-05 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1927/07/06/97234616.html?pageNumber=11}}
The boat was still in service in 1962, when the {{ship||John H. Glenn Jr.|fireboat|2}} joined the fleet.
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{{cite news
| url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/03/01/90134706.html
| title = City's Latest Fireboat: The John H. Glenn Jr.
| work = The New York Times
| date = 1962-03-10
| page = 15
| url-access = subscription
| via = Times Machine
| accessdate = 2020-06-01
| quote = There are eight fireboat's in the city's fleet and the Mayor's office customarily gives a short biography or explanation for the name chosen. The boats in service are: Senator Robert F. Wagner; Alfred E. Smith; John Purroy Mitchel; H. Sylvia Wilks; The Fire Fighter; and three craft named after Fire Department heroes-- Harry Archer, John J. Harvey and John D. McKean.
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{{cite news
| url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/03/30/98660347.html?pageNumber=8
| title = New Fireboat to Cost $220,000.
| work = The New York Times
| date = 1921-03-30
| page = 8
| url-access = subscription
|via = Times Machine
| accessdate = 2017-03-24
}}
{{cite news
| url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/07/24/109816521.html?pageNumber=21
| title = Fireboat Named With Wine; The John Purroy Mitchel Is First Oil Burner in City's Fleet.
| work = The New York Times
| date = 1921-07-24
| page = 21
|url-access = subscription
|via = Times Machine
| accessdate = 2017-03-24
| quote = The new city fireboat, the John Purroy Mitchel, named in honor of the late Mayor, was launched yesterday at the plant of the Standard Shipbuilding Corporation on Shooters Island.
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