[The CG-100, one of the 203 75-foot patrol boats built specifically for Prohibition enforcement duties.  They were known as the "Six-Bitters" and entered service between 1924 and 1925.  They had a top speed of 15 knots, slower than most of the rum-runners they were up against but were known as sturdy, well-built craft capable of off-shore operations.]

[Coast Guard 75-foot and 125 foot patrol boats--the 75-footers were the backbone of the Coast Guard's Prohibition enforcement campaign after their introduction into service.  The 125-footers, known as the "Buck & a Quarters," entered service in 1927 and were built for off-shore operations, particularly for trailing near the rum running "mother ships" sailing outside of U.S. territorial waters.]

[CG-403, a 78-foot patrol boat, built as a follow on to the 75-footers.  These craft were faster, with a top speed of 24 knots and one historian noted that they were "the best of the anti-smuggling boats.] 

[The Coast Guard Destroyer Tucker, flagship of the New London Destroyer Force.  Originally commissioned by the Navy in 1916, she was transferred to the Coast Guard in 1926 and served until 1933.] 

[The Coast Guard destroyers Tucker (left) and the Cassin (right) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.]

[A gun crew prepares to fire one of a Coast Guard destroyer's four-inch 50 caliber batteries.]

[Baylis was the commanding officer of the destroyer Paulding when she went to the assistance of CG-238 during a gale in October 1925.  The patrol boat foundered before the Paulding could reach the area, and all of her crew were lost.  The Paulding took a terrific pounding and nearly foundered as well before making it safely back to Boston, her home port.]

[The Coast Guard Destroyer Ammen picketing an unknown rum runner.  The Ammen, commissioned into the Navy in 1911, entered Coast Guard service in 1925 and served until May, 1931.

[An unidentified Lake class cutter--probably the Mendota--and her capture: the rum-runner Edna.  The Edna was commissioned into USCG service as the CG-936.  She was later intentionally destroyed by the Coast Guard when she was no longer fit for service.  Note the unidentified battleship in the center background.]

[The seized rum-runner Edna, commissioned into USCG service as the CG-936.  She was later intentionally destroyed by the Coast Guard when she was no longer fit for service.]

[Ensign Charles L. Duke carried out one of the more remarkable arrests ever conducted by the Coast Guard during the enforcement of Prohibition.  While on patrol in New York harbor, he single-handedly captured the freighter Greypoint and its crew of 22 in a daring and heroic act.  The freighter carried over a half-million dollars worth of illegal liquor on board.   Click here for more information.]

[The I'm Alone, flying a Canadian flag, was a "black" sunk by Coast Guard patrol boats in the Gulf of Mexico in March, 1929.  One of the rummies was killed in the incident.  The Canadian Government sued the United States for $365,000 and the ensuing legal battle brought world-wide attention.]

Scanned from David P. Mowry's Listening to the Rumrunners (Fort Meade, MD: NSA, 2001), p. 21.

[Another seized rum runner.]

[The CG-8031 was a former rum runner seized by the Coast Guard--case No. 1464-A--and put into service.]

[Horace Alderman, convicted of killing two Coast Guardsmen and one Treasury officer and also wounding two other Coast Guardsmen during a boarding and seizure near Bimini.  He was later hanged at Coast Guard Section Base, Fort Lauderdale.  He is the only person ever executed on Coast Guard property.]

[A Coast Guard developed radio direction finder the size of a small suitcase.  Its small size made it easily transportable.  Coast Guard intelligence operations were one of the many unsung Coast Guard successes during the "Rum War."]