blockade runner

"I have had other news from the blockade runners that you must hear, Mistress."

During the war, some 1,500 blockade runners were captured or destroyed.

If one ship was gone, they were usually chasing his blockade runners.

Those that remained were pressed into being Union blockade runners.

Blockade runners were seized almost every day, supplies in the South running out.

Blockade runners were hung from the trees on the roads.

He should have looked for work as a blockade runner, he knew now.

Some 1,100 blockade runners were captured (and another 300 destroyed).

During this period she was also assisted in the capture of several blockade runners.

Without the blockade runners the Confederacy could not have sustained itself.

Yet, some cotton was slipped out by blockade runner, or through Mexico.

Every so often the Union fleet caught or sank a blockade runner, but most of them got through.

He designed ships that were fast enough to pursue the blockade runners.

A party from Fox boarded and burned the blockade runner.

But he feared for Matthew, too, vanished on a blockade runner.

Lego's 1,700-piece blockade runner model was the first to include dark red bricks.

Early the following year, she resumed her success as a bane to blockade runners.

In 1861, the Confederates seized the ship as a blockade runner.

Flag captured or shared in the capture of many blockade runners.

A small fraction of the cotton was exported through blockade runners.

The gold was used to buy warships and supplies to be brought in by blockade runners.

He also worked as a cook and laborer on blockade runner ships.

However the blockade runners carried only a small fraction of the usual cargo.

She chased a blockade runner and fired at another on 3 April, but both escaped.

A typical blockade runner would burn 50-60 tons of coal a day.