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The proper maintenance of the blockade made it necessary that the seaboard should be in the hands of the Federals. For a blockader off Charleston or Wilmington to be forced to return to Hampton Roads to coal or to make repairs, would entail the loss of weeks, perhaps months, of valuable time.
"How many knots can she do in a smooth sea?" "Eighteen, and perhaps more." "Then she is not fast enough for that blockader outside. I saw her at Mobile when she was a big steam-yacht, and they said she had done twenty-two knots more than once." "I don't believe a word of it; and I am willing to take my chances to run away from her in the Teaser, if I can get out."
The expectant ships' companies were not willing to believe that the vessel had come out for the purpose of surrendering. "Schooner, ahoy!" shouted the officer of a boat sent off by the nearest blockader. "What vessel is that?" "The Judith, prize to the United States steamer Bellevite," replied Christy, "Kindly inform me where the Bellevite lies."
As for purity, all of the moonshine whiskey used to be pure, and much of it still is; but every blockader knows how to adulterate, and when one of them does stoop to such tricks he will stop at no halfway measures.
It is true that the British were able to maintain blockades of the French coast during many weary months without any base nearer than England a place far away to ships whose only motive power was sails; but destroyers and submarines and mines did not then exist, and these agencies are much more valuable to the defender than to the blockader who has no base at hand.
But in '61 we had hundreds of vessels stationed along the enemy's coast; and where a ship was stationed, there she stayed, to meet the fury of the wind and waves by putting out more anchors, and riding out at her cables storms that would have blown the blockader of 1812 hundreds of miles from her post.
He had learned that several vessels were loading with cotton at Appalachicola, with the intention of running the blockade, if there was any blockader off Cape St. George. His uncle Homer was engaged in superintending the fitting out of these vessels, though whether on his own account or that of the Confederacy, he was not aware.
But what was my uncle doing on board of your sloop, with Captain Flanger and the rest of your party?" "My master was the captain of the Floridian, and we came out here to see if there was any blockader near, that had come up in the fog. The steamer was to be brought out by the pilot, who has been on board of her for three days." "Who were the men with muskets on board of the sloop?"
Most of the old officers were still in the ship, and Christy found himself entirely at home where-ever he went on board. He was duly presented to Mr. Walbrook, the third lieutenant, the acting second lieutenant having returned to the flag-ship in the tender. For all the rest of the year the Bellevite remained on duty as a blockader off Fort Morgan.
The runner had reached the harbor safely; but there in channel lay a blockader in such a position that any ship coming in must pass within a hundred feet of her. The Confederate had a light-draught vessel, and tried to squeeze through.
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