blockade runner
(noun)
A vehicle, often a naval one, with the purpose of bringing cargo across a military blockade.
Examples of blockade runner in the following topics:
-
Naval Actions
- Maintain the blockade of Confederate ports by restraining all blockade runners as declared by the president on April 19, 1861.
- The Union commissioned 500 ships to enforce this blockade, and they destroyed or captured approximately 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.
- Confederate "blockade runners" that did manage to get through the blockade carried only a small fraction of the usual cargo.
- After 1862, only three ports—Wilmington, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; and Mobile, Alabama—remained open for the 75 to 100 blockade runners still operating.
- Blockade runners faced an increasing risk of capture—in 1861 and 1862, one ship in nine was captured; in 1863 and 1864, this number increased to one in three.
-
The Atlantic Theater
- Ships that tried to evade the blockade, known as blockade runners, were often newly built, high-speed ships with small cargo capacity.
- To this end, the Union commissioned 500 ships, which destroyed or captured roughly 1,500 blockade runners throughout the war; however, five out of every six attempts to evade the blockade were successful.
- The blockade was a triumph of the U.S.
- Early battles in support of the blockade enabled the Union Navy to extend its blockade gradually southward along the Atlantic seaboard.
- In 1865, the fall of both Fort Fisher and Wilmington, North Carolina closed the last major port for blockade runners.
-
Confederate Finances
- The Southern economy was crippled during the Civil War by a self-imposed cotton embargo, Union blockades, and inflation.
- The self-inflicted damage resulting from the embargo was exacerbated by the blockade of Southern ports by the Union Navy, beginning in 1861.
- The Union blockade greatly diminished the revenue from taxes on international trade, and Southern cotton exports fell by 95 percent.
- Ordinary freighters had no reasonable hope of evading the blockade and soon stopped calling at Southern ports.
- The USS Banshee was among the blockade runners that attempted to evade the Union blockade of the Confederate coast.
-
Confederate Politics
- Vance insisted that a portion of supplies smuggled into North Carolina by blockade runners be given to the state, despite need elsewhere.
-
International Diplomacy
- Indeed, the British government allowed blockade runners to be built in Britain and operated by British seamen.
-
The British Naval Blockade
-
Introduction to variability in estimates
- We would like to estimate two features of the Cherry Blossom runners using the sample.
- (1) How long does it take a runner, on average, to complete the 10 miles?
- ,x100 to represent the 10 mile time for each runner in our sample, and y1 ,...
-
Introduction to hypothesis testing
- Is the typical US runner getting faster or slower over time?
- We consider this question in the context of the Cherry Blossom Run, comparing runners in 2006 and 2012.
- Technological advances in shoes, training, and diet might suggest runners would be faster in 2012.
-
Running Injuries
- Foot blisters are also common among runners.
- One common location for chafe to occur is the runner's upper thighs.
- Some runners may experience injuries when running on concrete surfaces.
- Runners should be wary of twisting their ankles on such terrain.
- Recent studies have shown that runners do not have more osteoarthritis than people who do not run.
-
The Berlin Blockade
- On 12 May 1949, the USSR lifted the blockade of West Berlin.
- The next day the US State Department stated the "way appears clear" for the blockade to end.
- On 4 May 1949 the Allies announced an agreement to end the blockade in eight days' time.
- The Soviet blockade of Berlin was lifted at one minute after midnight on 12 May 1949.
- Later that day an enormous crowd celebrated the end of the blockade.