"Ralph J. Scott" carried breathing apparatus, forcible entry tools, heavy stream appliances, a bank of eighteen CO2 cylinders (now removed), flood light, smoke ejector equipment, syphon ejectors, drag and grappling hooks, two Mystery nozzles, and tips up to 6 inches for the largest deck turret. Four reels carry of various sized hose. She was equipped with 24 hose outlets (12 port and 12 starboard) and 5 large deck guns. Big Bertha, mounted on the wheelhouse could deliver via a nozzle. The tower turret, believed to be the first, or at least one of the first, fireboat towers in the nation, rises to a height of above the water.