Rocks and Shoals was the informal name of the Articles for the Government of the United States Navy.
Justice under the Articles was swift, and tended to be harsh.
It was replaced by the Uniform Code of Military Justice in 1951.
Rocks and Shoals played a major part in the first quarter of the Tom Clancy novel Clear and Present Danger, when the captain of a US Coast Guard cutter decided to try a pair of pirates under its rules for rape and murder.