# Rum-running vessel LINWOOD set afire by her crew (4 May 1923)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-205590835-linwood-set-afire-1923/

National Archives Coast Guard photograph: per the catalog, the rum-running vessel LINWOOD set afire by her crew to destroy evidence during pursuit by a Coast Guard vessel.

The National Archives catalog titles this photograph "LINWOOD set afire" and describes the rum-running vessel LINWOOD set afire by her crew to destroy evidence during pursuit by a Coast Guard vessel. The catalog gives no location, pursuing vessel or person. Local identifier 26-G-05-04-23.

The item is in Record Group 26 (U.S. Coast Guard), series Photographs of Activities, Facilities, and Personalities, file unit "Prohibition Era 1924; Radio; Regattas & Parades; Refugees". The cause of the fire is the catalog's description.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/205590835