Coast Guard destroyer HUNT on patrol for rum-running vessels
A National Archives Coast Guard photograph of the destroyer HUNT. The catalog says it shows the vessel on patrol searching for rum-running vessels. No crew or captured vessel is named.
- Date
- unknown
- Kind
- photograph
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- NAID
- 205590874
- Rights
- A photograph in the Records of the U.S. Coast Guard (Record Group 26), series "Photographs of Activities, Facilities, and Personalities" (NAID 513164), file unit "Prohibition Era 1924; Radio; Regattas & Parades; Refugees." The item reads "Use Restriction: Unrestricted." The series note says: "Fewer than one percent of photographs in this series are credited to commercial sources, and may have copyright or other use restrictions." No commercial credit appears on this item; a Coast Guard photograph is a United States government work, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105. The stored copy is an 1,800-pixel downsample of the catalog's scan.
The National Archives catalog title is “Coast Guard Destroyer HUNT,” local identifier 26-G-20974. The catalog description reads: “This image depicts the Coast Guard Destroyer HUNT on patrol searching for rum-running vessels.” The print shows a four-stack destroyer seen from the stern quarter under way, hull number CG-18 on the stern and boats in the davits. The catalog gives no date.
The item is in Record Group 26, file unit “Prohibition Era 1924; Radio; Regattas & Parades; Refugees.” The Coast Guard Historian’s article filed here says refurbished Navy destroyers entered Coast Guard service in 1924. The catalog names no officer, crew member or captured vessel, and this page does not.
