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    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...
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    During the American Civil War, blockade runners were used to get supplies through the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America that extended...
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    The Blockade Runner Badge or the Badge for Blockade Runners (German: Abzeichen für Blockadebrecher) was a World War II German military decoration awarded...
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    ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war. The blockade was largely successful in reducing 95% of cotton...
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  • by its model as the CR90 Corellian corvette or simply as the Rebel Blockade Runner) is a fictional spaceship in the Star Wars film series. Designed by...
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    The Confederate blockade runner CSS Florida, was built at Greenpoint, New York in 1859. Considered for service as a gunboat three times during the American...
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    A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes...
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    "The Blockade Runners" (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel...
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    transfer on a blockade runner. Often the forwarding agents would apply their own markings to the cover of mail. Mail placed aboard a blockade runner would then...
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    ship owned by DDG Hansa, put into service in 1938. She served as a blockade runner during World War II. When the war broke out in 1939, Tannenfels was...
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