Prohibition: The Rum War

Historical Bibliography

Articles

"Another Seizure [ Gloria S, V-12510 ]."  Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1929), p. 5.

Babcock, Judith A. "The Night the Coast Guard Opened Fire: A New Look at a 70-Year-Old File Raises a Troubling Question: Was the Rum-Running Crew of the Black Duck Murdered?"  Yankee (Dec 1999), pp. 60-65, 118-120.

Barber, Robert F. "The Day the Coast Guard Hanged a Man." Tropic (Apr 23, 1972), pp. 30-36.

"At Base 'A' [ Morehead City, NC; destruction of an illicit still ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Mar 1929), p. 14.

"Base Six Seizures." Coast Guard Magazine (Apr 1929), pp. 24-25.

"The Battle Front Shifts on Demon Rum." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1928), p. 11.

"Biggest Capture [ CG-142, assigned to Base 2, captured the 125-foot Harbor Trader ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1929), p. 19.

"Britisher Seized [ Mary Mother Elizabeth by CG-123 ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1930), p. 9.

Caliente, Rojo. "Professional Weepers 'Pity the Poor Law Breaker..." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1930), p. 33.

"Canada Warns the U.S." The Coast Patrol I, No. 2 (Jan 1933), p. 42.

"A La Captain Kidd [ Base Six, Fort Lauderdale capture of rummy; suspected murder ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1928), p. 21.

"CG-165 Makes Capture [ former-submarine chaser Porpoise ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1929), p. 16.

"CG-243 Makes Seizure [ V-13345 ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1929), p. 23.

"The CG-249 Makes Seizure [ V-8044 ]."  Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1929), p. 5.

"Claim of the British Ship 'I'm Alone.'" The American Journal of International Law Vol. 29, Issue 2 (Apr 1935), pp. 326-331.

"Coast Guard Planes Sink Floating Liquor." Coast Guard Magazine (Dec 1927), p. 27.

De Lorme, Roland L. "Liquor Smuggling in Alaska, 1867-1899." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 66 (1975), pp. 145-152.

Dennis, William C.  "The Sinking of the I'm Alone."  The American Journal of International Law Vol. 23, Issue 2 (Apr 1929), pp. 351-263.

"Desfor Notes [ Capture of speedboat Bobby ]." The Coast Patrol I, No. 2 (Jan 1933), p. 42.

"The Destroyer Beale." Coast Guard Magazine (Jul 1929), p. 10; "....Cassin." Coast Guard Magazine (Mar 1930), p. 14; "....Conyngham." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1933), p. 12; "....Conyngham." Coast Guard Magazine (Sep 1932), p. 48; "....Davis." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1929), p. 15; "....Hunt." Coast Guard Magazine (Nov 1932), p. 54; "....Porter." Coast Guard Magazine (Dec 1930), p. 20; "....Trippe." Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1931), p. 26; "....Tucker." Coast Guard Magazine (Nov 1932), p. 54.

"Destroyer Beale." Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1930), p. 32.

"Destroyers Obsolete." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1933), p. 18.

"Destroyers! The Real School for Seamen." Coast Guard Magazine (Mar 1928), pp. 5-6.

"Destroyers Scrapped." Coast Guard Magazine 7 (Sep 1934), p. 13.

"Destroyers Selected: Hunt, Welborn C. Wood, George E. Badger, & Herndon Taken Over by Coast Guard." Coast Guard Magazine (Oct 1930), p. 5.

Ehrman, William E. "The Good Guys Versus the Bad Guys." Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association The Bulletin (May/Jun 1981), pp. 40-43.

Field, Van R.  "The Great Rum War on Long Island."  Wreck & Rescue No. 16 (Spring 2001), pp. 7-11.

"At Fort Lauderdale [ capture of rummy ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1928), p. 20.

Greeg, John. "French Rum Islands are Not Up For Sale." Coast Guard Magazine (Sep 1932), p. 33.

Green, Moorehead.  "The Sea Wolf [ James Horace Alderman ]."  Radio Guide (1932), pp. 13, 30-31.

Gribbins, Joseph. "Rumboats." Nautical Quarterly 3 (Apr 1978), pp. 48-63.

"Guardsmen Acquitted [ of killing alleged rum-runner Carl Anderson of The Bug ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1929), p. 20.

"Guardsman [ Boatswain F. L. Beck of Niagara ] Cleared [ in shooting death of Jacob D. Hanson ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Mar 1929), pp. 20-21.

"Heritage." Proceedings of the Marine Safety Council 33 (Jul 1976), p. 135.

Hills, Brian P. "The U.S. Coast Guard and Prohibition: The Rum War at Sea, 1920-1933." Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association The Bulletin 73, No. 1 (Feb 2011), pp. 56-64.

"Hootch Hatches." Coast Guard Magazine (May 1931), p. 17.

"The I’m Alone Case." Naval Institute Proceedings 55 (May 1929), pp. 465-466.

Kaplan, H.R. "A Toast to the Rum Fleet." Naval Institute Proceedings 94 (May 1968), pp. 85-90.

Lescarboura, Austin C. "The Battle of Rum Row." Popular Mechanics 45 (Jun 1926), pp. 955-959.

"Lighthouse Tender ‘Hibiscus’ Assists in Destruction of Seized Liquor." Lighthouse Service Bulletin III, 21 (Sep 1, 1925), p. 93.

Lincoln, Philip A. "Marine Heritage: Anti-smuggling Offensive Has Bloody Past." Soundings (Sep 1983), p. 28.

Lonsdale, Adrian L. "Rumrunners on Puget Sound." American West 9, No. 6 (Nov 1972), pp. 28-33, 70-71.

"The Mail Buoy [ Letters ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1943), pp. 4-5.

"Major Seizures." Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1930), p. 12.

Mandeville, Ernst W. "A Most Amazing Story of Corruption." New Outlook 145 (Jan 19, 1927), pp. 81-82.

Miller, Harvey L. "This Business of Duty. American Press Generally Concedes Coast Guard is Within its Rights in Carrying Out Difficult Duties." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1930), pp. 9-11.

________. "The 'I'm Alone,' United States Coast Guard Carries Out Sworn Duties in Upholding the Constitution of the United States." Coast Guard Magazine (May 1929), pp. 3-4, 46-47.

Moore, Samuel T. "’Don’t Give Up the Rum Ship,’ How the Admirals of the Rum-Running Fleet Accept the Coast Guard Challenge." The Independent 114, No. 38 (Jan 17, 1925), pp. 67-71.

________. "Fighting Rum Row: A Cruise on the ‘White Terror’ [ CGC Tampa ]." The Independent 114 (Jan 10, 1925), pp. 34-37.

Morton, C.W. "Cutter Versus Rummy." Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1935), pp. 18-19.

"'O Yeah?' and 'Sez You!'" Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1931), pp. 4-5.

"Off the Florida Coast: Airplanes of the Coast Guard . . . are proving their worth in the war on smuggling." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1928), p. 18.

"On the A-B 21 [ destroys stills ]."  Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1928), p. 30.

Perkins, L.W. "An Episode on Rum Row." Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association The Bulletin (May-Jun 1972), pp. 30-32.

"Prohibition Rears Its Ugly Head." Coast Guard Magazine (Dec 1942), pp. 10,12.

"Schooner [ Harold ] Captured." The Coast Patrol I, No. 2 (Jan 1933), p. 42.

"Seized at New London." Coast Guard Magazine (Sep 1933), p. 15.

"Seizure for Base Six [ V-531 ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Feb 1929), p. 23.

"Shot from [ CG patrol boat ] '174' Halts The 'Marge.'" Coast Guard Magazine (Dec 1927), p. 25.

"Smuggler Destroyed [ Appomattox ]." The Coast Patrol I, No. 2 (Jan 1933), p. 21.

Stimson, T.E. "X Boats War on Smugglers." Popular Mechanics 58 (Aug 1932), pp. 242-247.

"Tale of a Modern Pirate, Hanging Ended Ruthless Career of Horace Alderman..." Coast Guard Magazine (Sep 1950), pp. 23-25.

Thompson, Ray. "The Story of I'm Alone." Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association The Bulletin (Sep-Oct 1971), pp. 26-29.

"Three Seizures." Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1930), p. 32.

"Tragedy [ Boatswain Gardner D. Young, Chief Motor Machinist's Mate John C. Hay & Motor Machinist's Mate 2/c William J. Pratt aboard CG-8010 were killed while chasing a rum runner.]" Coast Guard Magazine (June 1930), p. 26.

"Tribute to Those Who Did Not Die in Vain." Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1933), pp. 3, 20.

Tufts, Victor. "Bird's Eye View on Drugs [ AEROSTAT] ." Commandant's Bulletin #23-85 (Nov 8, 1985), p. 12.

Tuten, Lawrence F. "Red Days in Florida, a True Story of Piracy and Murder on the High Seas and a Killer's Finish at the End of a Rope [ Horace Alderman ]." Coast Guard Magazine (Aug 1938), pp. 8, 58-59.

"What of the Patrol After Rum Repeal." Coast Guard Magazine (Dec 1933), pp. 14-15.

Young, James C. "On the Florida Coast: Vigilance Against Smugglers Maintained by Coast Guard." Coast Guard Magazine (Jun 1929), pp. 24-25.

Books and Government Publications

Allen, Everett S. The Black Ships: Rumrunners of Prohibition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1965; reprint 1979.

Asbury, Herbert. The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc.

Barbican, James. The Confessions of a Rum-Runner. New York: Ives Washburn Pub., 1928.

Butts, Edward. Outlaws of the Lakes: Bootlegging & Smuggling from Colonial Times to Prohibition. Toronto, Canada: Lynx Images, Inc., July, 2004.

Candlee, Hal M. The Hanging at Bahia Mar. Fort Lauderdale: Wake-Book House 1976; reprint 1985.

Canney, Donald L. Rum War: The U.S. Coast Guard and Prohibition. Washington: U.S. Coast Guard, 1990.

Carse, Robert. Rum Row: The Liquor Fleet That Fueled the Roaring Twenties. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1959; Mystic, CT: Flat Hammock Press, 2007, reprint.

Caudle, Hal M. The Hanging at Bahia Mar. Fort Lauderdale: Wake-Brook House, 1976.

Corbett, Scott and Manuel Zora. The Sea Fox: The Adventures of Cape Cod's Most Colorful Rumrunner. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1958.

Evans, Stephen H. The Black Ships. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1965.

Field, Van R. & John J. Galluzzo.  Images of America: New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners.  Arcadia Publishing, 2004.

Lee, Henry. How Dry We Were: Prohibition Revisited. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963.

Linderoth, Matthew R. Prohibition on the North Jersey Shore: Gangsters on Vacation. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2010.

Lowell, Joan. Gal Reporter. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., Publishers, 1933.

Lythgoe, Gertrude.  The Bahama Queen, Prohibition's Daring Beauty: The Autobiography of Gertrude "Cleo" Lythgoe.  New York: Exposition Press, 1964; Mystic, CT: Flat Hammock Press, 2007, reprint.

Mason, Philip P. Rumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.

Mills, Eric. Chesapeake Rumrunners of the Roaring Twenties. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2000.

Moray, Alastair.  The Diary of a Rum-Runner: The Plain, Unvarnished, Day-By-Day Account of Eleven Months Off New York With a Crazy Ship, a Mutinous Crew, Lurking Hijackers and the Inquisitive Federal Authorities.  New York: P. Allan & Co., 1929; Mystic, CT: Flat Hammock Press, 2007, reprint.

Norman, Bruce. Secret Warfare: The Battle of Codes and Ciphers. New York: Dorset Press, 1973.

Patton, Janice. Sinking of the ‘I’m Alone.’ New York: McClelland & Stewart, 1973.

Randell, Jack, as told to Meigs O. Frost. I'm Alone. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1930.

Robinson, Geoff and Dorothy. It Came By the Boat Load: Essays on Rum-Running. Canada: Alfa-Graphics Ltd., 1984.

________. The Nellie J. Banks: The Life History of a Nova Scotian [?????]

Smiley, Nora K. and Louise V. White. History of Key West. St. Petersburg: Great Outdoors Publishing Company 1959.

Van de Water, Frederic F.  The Real McCoy: The Rum-Runner Turned National Hero [William F. McCoy] Whose Quality Liquor and Fair Dealing Perpetuated the Phrase "It's the Real McCoy."  Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931; Mystic, CT: Flat Hammock Press, 2007, reprint.

Verrill, A. Hyatt. Smugglers and Smuggling. New York: Duffield and Company 1924.

Waters, Harold. Adventure Unlimited: My Twenty Years of Experience in the United States Coast Guard. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1955.

________. "Five Flashes East: Exciting Action From Rum-Running Days in Florida." In 80 Years of Yachting, ed. Bill Robinson, 77-85. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1961.

________. Smugglers of Spirits: Prohibition and the Coast Guard Patrol. New York: Hastings House 1971.

________., & Aubrey Wisberg. Patrol Boat 999. New York: Chilton Company, Book Division, 1959.

Willebrandt, Mabel W. The Inside of Prohibition. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1929.

Willoughby, Malcolm F. Rum War at Sea. Washington: GPO, 1964.

Dissertations, Theses and Unpublished Papers

Ensign, Eric S. "Intelligence in the Rum War at Sea, 1920-1933." Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence Thesis, Joint Military Intelligence College, August 1998.