Good morning, Joey,
Attached photo is one I’ve been searching for for three years and finally found it yesterday.
It was taken in 1923 at Coast Guard Base #7 in Gloucester. It shows 9 of the then new 75’ Coast Guard Patrol Boats (and a couple smaller older boats.
Those boats were assigned along the coast to chase and interdict the rum-rummers during Prohibition. Over 200 were built and assigned to CG stations on both coasts and later as Coast Guard and Navy patrol craft during WW-II. Photo credit, Library of Commerce.
I’m currently working on a painting which shows Bill (the real ) McCoy’s rum-runners Arethusa, a/k/a Tomoka jogging on Rum-Row off the New York-New Jersey coast under the watchful eye of one of these, CG-153. Hope you can use it.
Bill Hubbard
Good Morning Gloucester 
My painting is nearly done and will follow shortly. It depicts two former Gloucester fishing schooners that were bought by Bill “the real ” McCoy and operated as rum-runners out of the Bahamas on Rum-Row off New York during Prohibition. They are being checked out by the Coast Guard patrol boat CG-153 in 1932.
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Great photo. Where did you find it? Looking forward to seeing the painting. McCoy was said to be a teetotaler–and that he used machine guns. Good whiskey was serious business…
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