blockade running

Blockade running had been one thing, for their sympathies were with the South.

Eventually, Union forces arrested her on charges of blockade running, and she was sent back home.

They must have made a small fortune blockade running.

The intended use would be blockade running, or to dive under Arctic ice.

The years of blockade running had given bun a taste for dangerous adventure.

Profits from blockade running were incredible, and Nassau went wild.

Blockade running is the practice of delivering cargo (food, for example) to a blockaded area.

Blockade running was reasonably safe for both sides.

When war broke out, McGill shifted to blockade running.

Blockade running had been one thing.

He helped with blockade running, which was done by transporting supplies up the center of the state through a series of land and river routes.

The profit on a single cargo that passed either way in safety was very great, and special vessels for blockade running were built in England.

Both had been sold to the USA for blockade running and lost early en route.

Blockade running became an organized industry.

During this time, he began blockade running, but lost a steamer he owned in 1862 when it ran aground.

Every Out Islander who owns a ketch or a sloop will try and put it to blockade running.

As with the others, Cameron Raleigh had been prodigal with the profits made in blockade running.

As many Southern port cities had been closed off by the Union blockade, Charleston became an important center for blockade running.

On 13 April General MacArthur reported blockade running was "useless," but the War Department decided to make the attempt.

The brothers made a fortune "first from wartime speculation and blockade running, and then from exploiting telegraph and cotton futures".

The most common type of schooners, with two-masts, were popular in trades that required speed and windward ability, such as slaving, privateering, and blockade running.

Huse was also owner of several seagoing steamers used in blockade running and made several trips to Europe and back aboard these vessels.

Postal History Blockade Running of Bermuda, Ludington.

With just as much gusto as they'd shown in the past for wrecking, privateering, and blockade running, Bahamians took to the seas with illegal liquor.

This time the objective was Fort Fisher, which protected Wilmington, one of the South's most successful centers of blockade running and her last port for overseas aid.