Black Duck, 1930
(CG-808)
Built: Unknown
Cost: Unknown
Machinery: Unknown
Top Speed: Unknown
Length: 45'
Beam: 10' 9"
Draft: 2'
Displacement: Unknown
Launched: Unknown
Acquired : Seized
Commissioned: 27 March1930
Disposition: Unknown
Complement: Unknown
Armament: Unknown
Cutter History:
One of the faster and more notorious rumrunners, Black Duck was captured by CG-290 after machine-gun fire had killed three of her crew.
She was taken into the Coast Guard 27 March 1930 and stationed at New London, CT.
Sources:
John Ruddy. "Prohibition was a Shooting War for the Coast Guard." New London The Day (23 August 2015).
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.