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This was the start of the Bimini–Bahamas rum trade and the introduction of Bill McCoy. Rum-runner William S. McCoy, Florida area from 1900 to 1920. With the start of prohibition, Captain McCoy began bringing rum from Bimini and the rest of the Bahamas into south Florida through Government Cut.
The Rum Patrol was an operation of the United States Coast Guard to interdict liquor smuggling vessels, known as "rum runners" in order to enforce prohibition in American waters. On 18 December 1917, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was submitted to the states by Congress .
William Frederick "Bill" McCoy (August 17, 1877 – December 30, 1948), was an American sea captain and rum-runner during the Prohibition in the United States.In pursuing the trade of smuggling alcohol from the Bahamas to the Eastern Seaboard, Capt. McCoy, [1] found a role model in John Hancock of pre-revolutionary Boston and considered himself an "honest lawbreaker."
At the start of prohibition the American forces trying to stop rum-running to Detroit were very impotent. But by 1922, they developed a powerful speedboat loaded with heavy weaponry, which would be the beginning of the "prohibition navy." [28]
Gertrude Lythgoe (March 1, 1888 - June 24, 1974 [1]) was one of the most prominent female rum-runners, or bootleggers, in the 1920s.She had various jobs before working for A. L. William Co in London where she began her involvement in the rum trade. [2]
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A rum row was a Prohibition-era term (1920–1933) referring to a line of ships loaded with liquor anchored beyond the maritime limit of the United States. These ships taunted the Eighteenth Amendment ’s prohibition on the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages . [ 1 ]
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