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A man kneeling on a platform beside a small model boat in a test tank, with a second man on the overhead carriage.
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Model of a rum-runner chaser at the Navy Yard, Washington (29 December 1924)

Library of Congress National Photo Company photograph, taken in what appears to be a test tank, of a small model boat that the title calls a model of a rum-runner chaser at the Navy Yard.

Date
1924-12-29
Kind
photograph
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Retrieved
2026-10-11
Rights
The Library of Congress item record states: "No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see National Photo Company Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/275_npco.html" Collection: National Photo Company Collection. Call number: LC-F81- 33779 [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-npcc-26545 (digital file from original).

The Library of Congress title is “Model of rum runner chaser at Navy Yard, [Washington, D.C.], 12/29/24.” The photograph shows a man kneeling on a platform beside a small model boat in the water, with a second man on the overhead carriage. The setting appears to be a test tank; the record has no further description. The title is unverified company data.

The Coast Guard article filed here, by the Coast Guard Historian’s Office, describes the service’s fleet expansion beginning in 1924; the photograph does not name the Coast Guard. The copy stored here is the Library of Congress service JPEG.

itemCoast Guard Historian's article on catching rum-runners during Prohibition (19 November 2021)Article by Coast Guard Atlantic Area historian William H. Thiesen, "The Long Blue Line: Catching the rumrunners," on the Coast Guard's Prohibition mission, "Rum Row", the 1924 fleet expansion and the 320 cutters and destroyers at the end of Prohibition.