A Coast Guard picketboat firing on a rum-running vessel at sea. — Open the full imageJPG, 1600 × 1292 px, 0.3 MB

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

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.

Date: 1927-03-18
Kind: photograph
Source: National Archives Catalog
Retrieved: 2026-10-11
NAID: 205590841
Rights: The National Archives catalog lists this item's Use Restriction status as "Unrestricted." Federal records are public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

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.

itemCoast Guard vessel inspecting a rum-running vessel off New Jersey (12 January 1927)National Archives Coast Guard photograph titled "Rum-runners": per the catalog, a Coast Guard vessel inspecting a rum-running vessel off the coast of New Jersey. A two-masted vessel with a small boat of men alongside is shown.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.