blockade running
Slipping past barriers
Blockade running is the act of evading a naval blockade to transport goods, supplies, or people into or out of a besieged port.
The term emerged during wartime, when fast ships would attempt to slip past enemy vessels enforcing an embargo: Confederate blockade runners brought weapons and cotton through Union lines.
A blockade runner is both the ship and the person who operates it.
- freightersShips designed for hauling goods
- riskPossibility of harm
- risky businessVenture with uncertain outcome
- enemy linesAdversary's military positions
- merchant fleetsCommercial vessel collections
smuggling · contraband · moonless · ship · Cuban Missile Crisis · Berlin Airlift · privateering · crew · fog · Confederate · Napoleonic Wars · diversionary tactics · submarines · high seas · cotton trade · supply lines · stealth · under cover
- naval warfarenaval battles, naval battle, battleship, destroyer, sea battles
- blockadesshipping ban, trade embargo, cordon, encirclement, exclusion zone
- maritime crimespiracy, ship hijacking, mutiny, pirate attack, hijacking
- naval gamesBattleship, fleet command, sea battle, naval warfare, depth charges
- Civil War Navalgunboat, naval battle, warships, naval guns, flagship
- Confederate WarfareRobert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, defensive warfare, cavalry raids, fortification
blockade runningnaval blockade
Fleet sealing off ports
blockading · customs enforcement · naval patrol · trade embargo · coastal patrol