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I'm Alone

Published Online February 7, 2006

Last Edited December 16, 2013

I'm Alone, a rumrunner based in Lunenburg, NS, one of several hundred vessels that supplied illicit liquor to a PROHIBITION-bound US during the 1920s. In March 1929 a US Coast Guard cutter sighted it when it had engine trouble in the Gulf of Mexico.

I'm Alone

I'm Alone, a rumrunner based in Lunenburg, NS, one of several hundred vessels that supplied illicit liquor to a PROHIBITION-bound US during the 1920s. In March 1929 a US Coast Guard cutter sighted it when it had engine trouble in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast guard vessels chased it out to sea and sank it with the loss of one crewman. Intense diplomatic negotiations followed. In 1935 the US apologized and paid damages to captain and crew.