Blockade RunnersBy: Britt

Weapons on blockade runners. Most of these ships had cannons and other

sorts of guns. Cannons were used to destroy other ships

or attack from the sea.

Cannons on the blockade runners

what it is Blockade. A blockade is a shutting off of a port or

region of a belligerent state by troops or ships of the enemy in order to prevent a passage in or out time of war.

What is a blockade runner. A blockade runner is a ship that try’s to slip

through blockade’s. These ship’s tried to get into the port’s so

that it could get soldiers their supply’s.

What they did for the army. They brought food and supplies for them.

They would also help out the protect the land by gunning down other ships.

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