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CSS Chickamauga, originally the blockade runner Edith, was purchased by the Confederate States Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina, in September 1864.In September, when she was nearly ready for sea, the Confederate Army sought unsuccessfully to retain her at that place for use as a troop and supply transport.
The Secretary of the CS Navy, Stephen Mallory, was very aggressive on a limited budget in a land-focused war, and developed a two-pronged warship strategy of building ironclad warships for coastal and national defense, and commerce raiding cruisers, supplemented with exploratory use of special weapons such as torpedo boats and torpedoes.
Blockade runner SS Banshee, 1863. A blockade runner is a merchant vessel used for evading a naval blockade of a port or strait. It is usually light and fast, using stealth and speed rather than confronting the blockaders in order to break the blockade. Blockade runners usually transport cargo, for example bringing food or arms to a blockaded city.
The vessel was intended for operation as a blockade runner, supplying Confederate Forces in the American Civil War. She was on her maiden voyage from London, headed ultimately for Wilmington, North Carolina, carrying cargo from the United Kingdom to help the Confederates. The United Kingdom could not be seen to be directly aiding the ...
The last blockade runner to make its way into Wilmington's port was the SS Wild Rover, on January 5, 1865. The fort was attacked a second time on January 13, and after a two-day siege it was captured on January 15 by the Union Army and Navy. [69] Several blockade runners previously docked upriver managed to escape in the midst of the battle.
Hyundai is recalling more than 225,000 vehicles over concerns of a rearview camera failing.. Six different vehicles from the Santa Fe and Elantra model lines are covered under the recall submitted ...
Confederate blockade runner [ edit ] Bermuda —an iron-hulled screw steamer—was built in 1861 at Stockton-on-Tees , England, by Pearse and Lockwood to take advantage of the extraordinary profits which could be made by running cargoes of war-making materiel through the Union blockade to the munitions-hungry Confederacy.
In Ocean City, the Fast Eddie’s nightclub will present the debut performance of a new supergroup called Sonic OCM at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30. The quartet, which will place an emphasis on ’90s ...