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 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.