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The 60-year-old Blockade Runner Beach Resort in Wrightsville Beach will undergo a comprehensive renovation and rebrand as Trailborn Surf & Sound in early 2025.
Blockade runner USS 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 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.
Mistaken for a blockade runner and rammed by USS Monticello off Kure Beach. [6] Pevensey Confederate States: Blockade runner, sank off Atlantic Beach. Phantom Confederate States: 1863 Steel-hulled blockade runner; sunk at Topsail Inlet. USS Pilgrim United States: 1935 Patrol vessel that was scuttled off Harkers Island as a breakwater.
The blockade runner Mary Bowers, Captain Jesse DeHorsey (or Horsey), bound from Bermuda to Charleston, South Carolina with an assorted cargo, struck the submerged wreck of the SS Georgiana in fourteen feet of water a mile off of Long Island (the present day Isle of Palms, South Carolina) on August 31, 1864. She "went on with such force as to ...
USS Granite City was a Confederate blockade runner steamer captured in March 1863 by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was armed with cannon and by August 1863 was in service as a gunboat in support of the Navy blockade of Confederate waters. She was recaptured in January 1864 by Confederate forces, again became a blockade ...
CSS Owl was a blockade runner in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. It was built by Jones Quiggen, a ship builder in Liverpool, England and launched on June 21, 1864. Owl, sister to CSS Bat, was more fortunate than her twin which followed her closely.
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.