# Coast Guard picketboat firing on a rum-running vessel, Atlantic coast (18 March 1927)

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National Archives Coast Guard photograph, per the catalog a Coast Guard picketboat firing upon a rum-running vessel off the Atlantic coast. The catalog names no vessels or people.

The National Archives catalog titles this photograph "Pursuit of rum-runners" and describes a Coast Guard picketboat firing upon a rum-running vessel off the Atlantic coast. The catalog gives no location beyond the Atlantic coast and names no vessels or people. Local identifier 26-G-03-18-27.

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 Coast Guard Historian's article filed here describes the picket boats built in the 1920s for fast inshore work.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/205590841