BLOCKADE RUNNER (Bahamas)

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BLOCKADE RUNNER (Bahamas)

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Oct 15, 2017 7:24 pm

During the American Civil War, blockade running became a major enterprise for the Confederacy due to the Union's Anaconda Plan, which sought to cut off all the Confederacy's overseas trade. Twelve major ports and approximately 3,500 miles of coastline along the Confederate States were patrolled by some 500 ships that were commissioned by the Union government. Great Britain played a major role on the blockade running business, as they had huge investments in the south and were the recipients of many commodities exported goods, especially cotton. Great Britain also had control over many of the neutral ports in the Caribbean, as well as Atlantic ports off the East Coast of the United States, such as the Bahamas and Bermuda. To protect their interests British investors had engineered steamships that were longer, narrower and considerably faster than most of the conventional steamers guarding the American coastline, thus enabling them to outmaneuver and outrun Union ships on blockade patrol. Among the more notable of these premier vessels was the CSS ADVANCE that completed more than 20 successful runs through the Union blockade before being captured. These vessels also served to import badly needed supplies, especially firearms, and also served to bring mail to and from the Confederacy. The blockade played a major role in the Union's victory over the Confederate states. By the end of the Civil War the Union Navy had captured more than 1,100 blockade runners and had destroyed or run aground another 355 vessels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_ ... _Civil_War
More info is given on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_ ... _Civil_War

On the site given below I found the image after which the Bahamas stamp was designed, but the site did not give a name, and I could not find a name either, she was an early blockade runner with one mast and all the photos on the internet or books I have shown blockade runners with two masts.
Can somebody place a shipsname by the blockade runner?
http://www.minecreek.info/blockade-runn ... nners.html
Bahamas 1980 18c sg 564, scott? and 1983 80c on 18c sg 648, scott?
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1983 Bahamas blockade runner.jpg

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