The diary of a rum-runner.

Waxey Gordon - worked as a rum-runner for Rothstein during the first years of Prohibition.

"An old rum-runner's precaution," Byrd said.

The rum-runner started in that direction, but then suddenly started its engine, hoisted the fore staysail and stood rapidly to eastward.

Oftentimes, the shores were littered with bottles from a rum-runner who had hit a sandbar or a reef in the dark at high speed and sunk.

Tomoka tried to run, but the Seneca placed a shell just off her hull, and Bill McCoy's days as a rum-runner were over.

More recently the term "cigarette boat" has replaced the term "rum-runner" when similar boats were used to smuggle cigarettes between Canada and the United States.

In 1931, Binion was convicted of murdering an African American rum-runner, Frank Bolding, "cowboy style."

Coot, an amoral, alcoholic, indigent seventy-year-old former rum-runner, had not been gainfully employed since the repeal of the Volstead Act.

Walker later wrote The Confessions of a Rum-Runner under the pseudonym of James Barbican about his life during this period.

March 22 - The Canadian schooner and rum-runner I'm Alone was sunk by the US Coast Guard.

June 20 - Off New England, a United States Coast Guard Vought UO-1 becomes the first aircraft to pursue a rum-runner.

Dominic Farbrizzi, better known as Little Dum Dum Fabrizzi-gunman, rum-runner in the old days, rackets boss, and merciless killer.

He had been a rum-runner in the old days, and later had tried to muscle in on the shrimp-fishing industry, to the extent of taking over some fishing shacks from their rightful owners.

This vessel belonged to William S. McCoy, notorious rum-runner, and had been hovering along the coast between Nassau, Bahamas and Canadian ports, peddling liquor.

Miranda and The Jameson Girls were both novels of reminiscence, the latter about high-jinks in the family of a dying rum-runner, which caused some controversy in her home-town.

Before the advent of outboard motors in the 1950s, Bahamian dinghies often provided the sole means of transportation for fishermen, farmers, and visiting families, as well as the occasional smuggler and rum-runner.

IN 1887 in the booming settlement of Port Townsend, Washington Territory, a prosperous Maine-born contractor and occasional rum-runner named George Starrett married Ann Van Boklen, a hometown girl.

When Nevada legalized gambling in 1931, Cal Custer, a long-time rum-runner from Southern California, purchased the club and expanded the operation to include a 21 table, tub-style craps game, and a dozen slot machines.

Joining "Dopey" Benny Fein's labor sluggers in the early 1910s Gordon helped organize Fein's operations before being noticed by Arnold Rothstein, who hired him away from Fein and put him to work as a rum-runner during the first years of Prohibition.

By the mid-1920s, Higgins' rum-running operations included a fleet of taxis and loading trucks, as well as several planes and numerous speedboats which were used in smuggling alcohol into the United States from Canada (one of which, the Cigarette, was described as "the fastest rum-runner in New York waters").

Over the next few years he tinkered with aircraft design using spare parts to build his first plane, at the request of a Houston bootlegger, who dubbed the resulting "rum-runner" a "Darned Good Airplane," DGA-1 giving it and future Howard aircraft their trademarked initials of DGA.

First driving alcohol shipments for other local bootleggers, by the mid-1920s, he had established a formidable bootlegging operation which included planes, automobiles and a fleet of boats, one of them the legendary rum-runner called the "Black Duck", earning him a reputation as one of the most successful, if not colorful, bootleggers on the east coast.