blockade runner

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 were 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%.
  • Ordinary freighters had no reasonable hope of evading the blockade and soon stopped calling at Southern ports.
  • The SS 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.

• Neutral Rights and Submarines

  • Both the Allied powers and Germany attempted naval blockades, interrupting American neutral rights at sea.
  • The most important indirect strategy used by the belligerents was the naval blockade.
  • Germany also considered establishing a blockade.
  • We can bottle her up and destroy every ship that endeavors to break the blockade" .
  • Analyze how the Allied and German blockades, Germany's use of U-boats, and the Lusitania incident interfered with America's stance of neutrality.

• The Cold War Begins

  • The Cold War began with the formation of the Eastern Bloc, as well as the implementation of the Marshall Plan and the Berlin Blockade.
  • The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin.
  • On 12 May 1949, the USSR lifted the blockade of West Berlin.
  • The Berlin Blockade served to highlight the competing ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe.
  • The Berlin Blockade and the tensions surrounding it marked the beginning of the Cold War.

• American Neutrality

  • The most important indirect strategy used by the belligerents in the war was the naval blockade.
  • Germany also used a blockade.
  • We can bottle her up and destroy every ship that endeavors to break the blockade."
  • In January 1917, however, German Field Marshal Hindenburg and General Ludendorff decided that an unrestricted submarine blockade was the only way to break the stalemate with the Allies on the Western Front.

• The Aftermath of the War

  • Southern leaders needed to get European powers to help break up the blockade the Union had created around the Southern ports and cities.
  • Lincoln's naval blockade was 95% effective at stopping trade goods.
  • The abundance of European cotton and the United Kingdom's hostility to the institution of slavery, along with Lincoln's Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico naval blockades, severely decreased any chance that either the United Kingdom or France would enter the war.

• Economic Development in the North

  • This enabled the Union to control the river systems and to blockade the entire southern coastline.
  • The slogan was widely believed in the South, but in the end of misperception of the world economy and led to bad diplomacy, such as the refusal to ship cotton before the blockade started.
  • Consequently, the strategy proved a failure for the Confederacy — King Cotton did not help the new nation, but the spontaneous blockade caused the loss of desperately needed gold.