The Long Blue Line: Saving Sunbeam—a deadly human trafficking case over 100 years ago
It was early on the cold, windy morning of Wednesday, Dec. 17, 1919. The Coast Guard Cutter Manning commenced a slow, measured approach to the disabled schooner Sunbeam, adrift 150 miles off the Virginia Capes. Before the cutter was in position to shoot a messenger line across the schooner’s forecastle as the lead for a…