If the assailant employs similar craft to drive the blockaders away, the defender will bring up larger craft to stiffen his blockading flotillas.
The blockaded forces may not be so thoroughly intimidated by the superior forces of the blockaders that they could not or would not, if they could, seek a favourable opportunity for breaking or evading the blockade imposed upon them.
Because of the gale, he calculated that the blockaders would get a considerable offing, lest they flounder mid the shoal waters inshore.
The skipper hoped that the blockaders would never credit him with quite the insanity of it.
Even if torpedoes and cannon missed, the Fort and blockaders outside would be thankful for the alarm, and make sure of him.
They escaped the blockaders at Charleston, reached Havana, and there embarked on the British mail steamer Trent for Europe.
In this respect the British encountered conditions contrary to those they had know before the French Atlantic ports, where the wind which drove the blockaders off prevented the blockaded from leaving.
The toughest inquiry he made was as to how he expected to get through the blockaders in a clear night like that.
Going out in a dark night and spending a week in sight of the blockaders are two different things.
At last, to my great relief, I saw Fort Fisher just appearing above the horizon, although we knew that the perilous passage between these blockaders must be made before we could come under the friendly protection of its guns.
In both of these homes she was occasionally exposed to the shot and shell fired from blockaders at belated blockade-runners.
Indeed a blockade-runner is in an even worse position than a hostile belligerent; for not being a combatant he may not resist the efforts of the blockaders to destroy or capture him.
We soon found however, that we had the heels of our friend, but it left us the alternative of going out to sea or being chased straight into the jaws of the blockaders off the bar before darkness came on.
So plainly could we see the sleepy blockaders that it seemed almost impossible we should escape their notice.
Seeing a post of Confederate soldiers close by on the beach, we determined to steam close in and communicate with them in order to learn all about the tactics of the blockaders and our exact distance from Galveston.
It is all bygone now; runners can laugh over the rough knocks they sometimes got, and blockaders at the weary dance they were led.
No blockade of any importance had yet been subjected to the new conditions of steam navigation, and it was unreasonable to expect that the blockaders would hold themselves bound by rules which never contemplated the existing state of things.
Then, before the cloud of smoke and spray had time to drift inboard, the Tremendous was over and beyond the ever-widening circle of iridescent oil that marked the ocean grave of yet another of the would-be blockaders of Britain's shores.
It was safe to conclude, decided Kapitan Schwalbe, that another of the blockaders had gone to the bottom for the last time.
Moreover, these widely scattered blockaders would have to be on duty by night as well as by day.
Then the time came for the war-zone decree to be put into effect, and the world watched with great interest and no little apprehension to see what the submarine blockaders could do.
The strong right arm of the Union navy held it fast at every point but three--Wilmington, Charleston, and Mobile; and round these three the stern blockaders grew stronger every day.
Presumption becoming proof by further evidence, the doctrine of continuous voyage could be used in favor of the blockaders who stopped the contraband at sea between the neutral ports.
She slipped out of the Potomac and past the blockaders on Jan.
As soon as he was safely inside, the British blockaders again closed around the port.
But one of his blockaders went ashore in the storm, and we captured the officers and crew.
Before night, however, some twenty blockaders were in sight of the bar.
He also wants two Whitworth guns to keep the blockaders at a more respectful distance, since they captured one steamer from us, recently, nine miles below the city, and blew up a ship which was aground.
There is no news of moment from any quarter, except the loss of our steamer Cornubia, taken by the blockaders at Wilmington.
Godwin, in King and Queen County, written by Judge Campbell, says that blockaders are allowed to run through, provided they be not suspicious parties.
But he was obliged to await the arrival of one or both of the blockaders before starting the screw, for he was not willing to leave any number of his crew in charge of the prize.
I should say that the schooner would have a much better chance to get through the blockaders in tow of the Trafalgar than in going on her own hook.
As Mr. Baskirk had discovered, the leading steamer had three blockaders in chase of her.
All my service so far in blockaders has been in the Gulf, and this will be a tremendous change for me.
The fog that prevailed inshore was favorable to blockade-runners; and if there was a vessel of this character in Cape Fear River, the early morning had been such as to tempt her to try to make her way through the blockaders to sea.
He was running away from the two blockaders that were pursuing him, and had beaten them both.
I am not quite sure whether some of the blockaders did not occasionally pepper each other.
I have seen three burning at one time, for the moment a vessel struck she was set fire to, to prevent the blockaders getting her off when daylight came.
The American Government had determined to do everything in its power to stop blockade-running, and had lately increased the force of blockaders on the southern coast by some very fast vessels built at New York.
While we were performing this somewhat ticklish manœuvre, Fort Fisher most kindly opened a heavy fire from all its guns, and thus drew the attention of the blockaders from us.
Feeling pretty confident now of our position, we went on again at full speed, and made out clearly the line of blockaders lying to the right and left of the ship which showed the light; all excepting her being apparently under weigh.
In the latter case they at least would be badly injured; so in either event the blockaders would be relieved of much of their burden.
As, by the Admiralty's instructions, one of the blockaders was usually a ship of the line, the American vessels very properly evaded them.
For the first day, little danger was to be expected, and the voyage was generally so timed that the outer line of blockaders would be reached just after nightfall.
The duty required of the blockaders did not require much fighting, but the men were in danger of the coast fevers all the time, and hundreds died.
But, more than this, they had suffered their coast to be so sealed up by British blockaders that many of their best vessels were left to lie idle at their docks.
The Confederate flotilla returned to New Orleans, and reported that they had driven theblockaders away.
She was within two hundred yards of the outer row of blockaders before her presence was detected.
The baffled blockaders saw her moving slowly up the river, while the cannon of the forts on either side thundered out salutes to the daring vessel that brought precious supplies to the Confederacy.
His boat was one of the fastest on the ocean, and he needed only to put on steam to escape all the blockaders on the coast.
As luck would have it, the blockaders had been forced from their posts by the gale of the day before, and the "President" had laid her course so as to infallibly fall into their clutches.
Here she lay for several weeks, while the men on the blockaders were fuming at the thought that they were to be kept idle, like cats watching a rat-hole.
The year 1815 found the American navy largely increased by new vessels, though the vigilance of the British blockaders kept most of these close in port.
Most of them were blockaders their own selves, till they saw how they could make more money turncoatin'.
But the blockaders themselves are glad to see prohibitory laws enforced to the letter, so far as saloons and registered distilleries are concerned, and the drinking public prefer their native product from both patriotic and gustatory motives.
The resulting liquid is technically called the "wash," but blockaders call it "beer.
The blockaders bushwhacked them, riddled a mule and its rider with buckshot, and shot my deputy through the brain with a squirrel rifle.
The blockaders will probably be able to pick her up.
He drinks too much whiskey for his own good; but he knows all the ports on the Gulf of Mexico, and he gets in or out in face of the blockaders every time," answered Percy with enthusiasm.
She would have surrendered had the time been sufficient for Decatur to enforce the demand, but the other blockaders were hurrying up and placed the American again in grave danger.
The blockaders were plainly visible about four miles from land; they consisted of three gunboats and an ugly paddle steamer, also two supply vessels.
Such a stampede did occur when theblockaders threw two or three shells.
He told me that several Yankee blockaders surrendered, but could not be taken possession of, and the others bolted at such a pace as to render pursuit hopeless, for these little gunboats are very slow.
Although the blockaders can easily approach to within three miles of the works, and although one shell will always "stampede" the negroes, yet they have not thrown any for a long time.
Last night these two active little vessels were out to look after some blockaders which were supposed to have ventured inside the bar.
The blockaders opened fire on the Night Hawk, which was blazing merrily, and Colonel Lamb shelled the blockading fleet; then through the boiling surf the rest of the crew rowed safely, wet through and exhausted.
Fort Fisher, placed at the northern point, obliged the blockaders to lie far out, beyond the range of the guns.
Not all the encounters between the blockaders and the blockade-runners terminated so happily for the Americans.
Even had the British desired to enforce the blockade along the New England shore, the character of the coast, and the skill and shrewdness of the Yankee skippers, would have made the task of the blockaders a most difficult one.
In the next encounter between the blockaders and a privateer, the British bore away the palm for gallantry.
The sparks from our smokestack gave the blockaders our course as plainly as though it had been noon-day, and they closed in from both sides to head us off.
The blockaders expected we would be laid up for a month.
I knew the blockaders would not expect us for at least four days, and we surprised them just as we had surprised the Powhatan at Bermuda.
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