It is true that a south wind might possibly produce a change, and carry away the blockading mass; but every moment rendered this so much the less probable.
The American frigates and privateers fled up the bay to Providence, whence, taking advantage of a northeast gale, and eluding the vigilance of the blockading squadron, they escaped, and went to sea.
At the end of January two Confederate gunboats under Commodore Ingraham attacked the blockading flotilla of Charleston, forced the Mercedita to surrender, badly mauled the Keystone State, and damaged the Quaker City.
In a twinkling the corded piles of cross-ties had melted to reappear in cobhouse balks bridging an angle from the Utah embankment to that of the spur track in the rear of the blockading Rosemary.
I am one of the officers of the English admiral who commands the fleet that has destroyed their war-ships and is blockading their towns.
At present, however, that is out of the question; for while I was waiting in the anteroom I learned that the blockading fleet has sailed away, and that there is no news whatever as to the direction which it has taken.
Blockading was desperately tedious work, make the best one could of it.
After the capture of Port Royal, and the establishment there of the naval base, and until the arrival of monitors a year later, operations of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, as it was styled, were confined to blockading.
On the 25th of April, Admiral Bruix did indeed leave Brest, after baffling the blockading fleet of Lord Bridport, which was sent on a wild-goose chase to the south of Ireland by means of a despatch sent out to be captured and to deceive.
But the necessity to maintain a blockading force in the German Ocean imposed a fresh strain on its naval resources, and the hostility of Holland closed a most important route to British commerce in Europe.
Outside the harbour of every seaport in the control of the Confederates the blockading men-of-war lurked awaiting the blockade runners.
News of this somehow reached the Federal Navy Department and was immediately communicated to Vice-Admiral Dahlgren, in command of the blockading fleet.
This panegyric, however intended, was not at all relished by his lordship, who had never approved of theblockading system.
When his men refused so speedily to turn their backs on the riches of Italy, Spartacus took the route for Rome, and is said to have meditated blockading the capital.
A buccaneer who in the year 1684 was one of the mixed English and French fleet blockading Panama.
We learned afterward that the Rebels made a practice of breaking up all the boats along the shore to prevent negros and their own deserters from escaping to the blockading fleet.
Our hope was to find a boat somewhere, in which we could float out to sea, and trust to being picked up by some of the blockading fleet.
The blockading squadron were so far away that the reports were lost in the distance.
The enemy had counted on cutting his way through the blockading squadron, but the first of his vessels had come to grief before the chase was fairly begun.
If ever war demanded the bottling up and blockading of Canada, the basis for that embargo would be Newfoundland.
Because the Canadian trans-continentals simply could not take care of the traffic blockading tracks and ports and elevators.
Moreover, here lay the main blockading force, consisting of large and powerful auxiliary cruisers, patrolling at short intervals its two hundred miles of open water.
His force of 2500 men was then blockading the little fortress of Medun, a remotely detached item of the defensive system of Podgoritza, and on the next day he set out for his post.
Here the fleet was joined by the Annapolis and the Wasp, while the Puritan and Amphitrite went to San Juan and joined the New Orleans, which was engaged in blockading that port.
The first encounter of the war in point of date took place April 27, when a detachment of the blockading squadron made a reconnoissance in force at Matanzas, shelled the harbor forts, and demolished several new works in construction.
He hurried at once to Washington, where he was appointed commander of the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron.
Three of the American vessels blockading this harbor had been ordered to explore the bay.
The American blockading fleets had to be created from all sorts of available material and were slow in getting under way.
If added to the blockading squadrons on station off the Southern ports they would but become so much more fodder for the dreaded Rams.
This merely holds that temporary absence of blockading ships does not impair the blockade nor render "necessary a new notice of its existence.
Regular ships of the old Navy could not enforce it being too few in number, and also, at first, directing their efforts to the capture of shore positions which would render a large blockading squadron unnecessary.
The question whether a blockade is effective as to number and disposition of the blockading forces under the existing geographical conditions must in every case be examined by the Prize Court.
The blockade must be confined to the ports and coasts belonging to or occupied by the enemy; the blockading forces must not bar access to neutral ports or coasts.
Besides blockading our extensive coast, squadrons larger than ever before assembled under our flag have been put afloat and performed deeds which have increased our naval renown.
Tordenskiold, which vessel was in May, 1861, prevented by the commander of the blockading force off Charleston from leaving that port with cargo, notwithstanding a similar privilege had shortly before been granted to an English vessel.
Here the fleet was joined by the Annapolis and the Wasp, while the Puritan and Amphitrite went to San Juan and joined the New Orleans, which was engaged in blockadingthat port.
The Brazilian commander of the allied invading forces refused permission to the Wasp to pass through the blockading forces, and that vessel returned to its accustomed anchorage.
I am bound for the Adriatic," replied the commander, "to join the rest of the French fleet blockading the Austrians there.
Until yesterday the Cumberland was one of the blockadingfleet off Heligoland.
It was certain from the beginning that the Federal authorities would completely shut the South in by blockading and closely sealing every southern port.
