Noun:

ବ୍ଲକର୍ ରନର୍ |,

blockade runner's Usage Examples:

On the last day of October, and Niphon seized another blockade runner named Annie off New Inlet, North Carolina.

If spotted, the blockade runners would attempt to outmaneuver or simply outrun any Union ships on blockade patrol, very often successfully.

The Union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.

warships patrolling abroad were recalled, a massive shipbuilding program was launched, civilian merchant and passenger ships were purchased for naval service, and captured blockade runners were commissioned into the navy.

Confederate patriots held rich blockade runners in contempt for profiteering on luxuries while the soldiers were in rags.

to windward was useful for privateers, blockade runners, slave ships, smaller naval craft and opium clippers.

SS Rob Roy was a Confederate blockade runner commanded by Captain William Watson, that ran to and from Bermuda, the Bahamas and Cuba from 1862 to 1864.

She captured the blockade runner Judson on 30 April and sent her into Ship Island with her valuable cargo of cotton and turpentine.

The next day Niphon captured the blockade runner Ella and Annie off Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina, attempting to slip in with a cargo of arms and provisions.

Her aircraft sank a German blockade runner and disabled a German oil tanker in mid-1941 but did not find any other Axis ships before the ship was ordered home for a refit in October.

During the American Civil War Keith acted mostly as a blockade runner and courier.

She assisted Keystone State and in driving off and pursuing her old adversary Nashville — now a blockade runner named Thomas L.

Synonyms:

ship,

Antonyms:

get off, disembark,