blockade-runner in English

noun
1
a vessel that runs or attempts to run into or out of a blockaded port.
After two unsuccessful attempts to use Confederate money to book passage to Europe on a blockade runner out of Wilmington, North Carolina, Garidel realized that he was trapped in Richmond.
2
the owner, master, or one of the crew of a blockade runner.
Merchants, mercenaries, pirates, blockade runners , and all sorts of travelers come through Nerlack Lunar Base daily, slipping unnoticed onboard a ship will not be difficult.

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2. The Union Navy captured or destroyed around 1,500 Blockade runner ships during the course of the Civil War

3. The diary of a soldier of fortune : his experiences as engineer, sheep station hand, labour agent, explorer, American soldier, blockade runner, tramp Contributor Names Hyatt, Stanley Portal, 1877-1914

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5. A risk-tolerant defender may attempt to maneuver the Blockader into a position where the latter must attack a blockade runner (and/or its military escort) and thereby risk triggering an …

6. She was named for Midshipman Henry A. Clemson (1820–1846), lost at sea when the brig USS Somers capsized in a sudden squall off Vera Cruz on 8 December 1846 while chasing a blockade runner.

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