“Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay” with Christian McBurney скачать в хорошем качестве

“Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay” with Christian McBurney

The Rhode Island coastline is dot- ted with armed fortifications. The artillery pieces in those forts never fired at an enemy during World War I or World War II. But in between those two wars a different kind of conflict took place — Prohibition. Between 1929 and 1933, Coast Guard vessels patrolling Narragansett Bay fired thousands of rounds from machine guns and can- nons. The enemy they fired at? The “rummies”— rumrunners in power boats delivering illegal alcohol to secret drop-off points on the coast. Buying and selling alcoholic bever- ages was illegal in the United States from 1920 to 1933. The profits from a successful voyage could be enor- mous. Rum-runners picked up alcohol from supply ships stationed beyond the twelve-mile zone off the coast, an area known as “Rum Row,” and made their deliveries on moonless nights or in thick fog to avoid detection. Thursday, November 2nd at 7:00 P.M.