Word: billard
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Storyteller: Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant. Accounts varied as to whether the encounter took place 16 or 26 miles off New York. In either case international complications seemed likely-more serious perhaps than those resulting from the sinking of the Canadian rumrunner I'm Alone last spring (TIME, April 1). The I'm Alone was allegedly "hotly pursued" from within the 12-mile limit. The null was without doubt fired upon almost instanter and her whereabouts at the time will make a great difference...
...Matheson filed a protest with Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen who took up the matter with Rear-Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard commandant at Washington. Wrote Admiral Billard to Tycoon Matheson: "As your launch was innocently engaged, I express regret . . . but . . . the Coast Guard personnel involved are not censurable in this incident...
...owners are subject to such perils. . . . Our Government should be asked to curtail the activities of Coast Guard boats. . . . Boat manufacturers with large invested capital are concerned about the future of the pleasure boat industry unless public confidence can be restored." To still the troubled waters of yachting, Commandant Billard, a determined officer with a "sense of duty," last week addressed a public communication to: "All Yachtsmen and Amateur Motor Boat Men." This message, issued a few hours before the Miami River episode, said...
...Coast Guard sank the British auxiliary schooner I'm Alone, and killed one of her crew, an indefinite distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone's rigging...
Cornered by other U.S. craft 24 hours later on the high seas, the I'm Alone was sent down by gunfire from the cutter Dexter. The man killed was a Negro seaman. The rest of the crew, in irons, were carried to New Orleans aboard the Dexter. Admiral Billard was positive the pursuit began within the twelve-mile limit and therefore within the terms of the British Rum Treaty. But the British embassy was not so sure...