During the early winter months of 1960, the St. Mary’s of-the-Harbor Church in Provincetown planned a Smorgasbord supper for Saturday night, Feb. 20. Little did the Episcopal congregation — or anyone else on the Cape tip — realize just how big of a Swedish and supper event that winter weekend would turn out to be. It was on this night the 258-foot Swedish freighter Monica Smith ran aground at Hatches Harbor, just south of Race Point, during a “clear-skied gale,” according to

The cutter known as the U.S.S. Morrill had already seen a tough stretch of luck as the day dawned over Provincetown Harbor on Nov. 16, 1926. The Morrill, known as the "mother ship" of the rum-chasing fleet along the New England coast, had seen eight of its men perish as one of its surf boats capsized off the coast of Nova Scotia one year earlier, but what was to come later on this day defied explanation. The Morrill, which was fitted with machine guns and had captured a Briti