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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter II (search)
trine of continuous voyages, according to which the mere touching at an intermediate port of a vessel engaged in an illegal voyage could not break the continuity of the voyage or remove the taint of illegality. Hence, if a vessel cleared from Liverpool with the intention of merely touching at Nassau, and then proceeding to Charleston, and if this intention could be proved from the papers, the character of the cargo, and the examination of persons on board, the two voyages were held to be one,of technical evidence, when there was no moral doubt as to the vessel's guilt. As a last resort, the blockade-running merchants adopted an expedient so original and so bold that it may almost be said to have merited success. As cargoes from Liverpool to Nassau ran a risk of capture, the voyage was broken again, this time not by a neutral destination, but by one in the country of the very belligerent whom the trade was to injure. Goods were shipped to New York by the regular steamship lines
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
nd Third Officer150 Chief Engineer500 Crew and firemen (about)50 Pilot750 Besides the money received, officers were able to stow away little cargoes of their own, and so to make on each trip a private speculation; and an occasional cotton-bale was brought out for a friend, by way of making a handsome present. In fact, the blockade-running captains, after six months of employment, could afford to retire with a snug competency for the rest of their life. The merchants who withdrew early from the business acquired considerable fortunes; but those who kept on until the end met with heavy losses. Any speculation that brings sudden and excessive profits is likely to be overdone; and large amounts of capital were sunk in the last months of the war. At the close, the thriving business of Nassau and Bermuda suddenly collapsed, and they reverted to their former condition of stagnation; while the mercantile enterprise of Liverpool was directed to other and more legitimate channels.
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
nt, her ostensible owner being a merchant of Liverpool and Palermo. The Italian Consul, however, d22d of March, 1862, the Florida cleared from Liverpool under the name of the Oreto, and without a cidavits were delivered to the authorities at Liverpool, one of which, made by a seaman who had beeno days later the steamer Bahama came in from Liverpool, with Semmes and the remainder of the officee out in the Bahama. Nearly all belonged to Liverpool. Those who were unwilling to go returned tory successful. She was accordingly taken to Liverpool, her crew were discharged, her warlike equipder the command of Commodore Craven, came to Liverpool, ascertained that Lisbon was the destination On the same day, the steamer Laurel left Liverpool, having cleared for Nassau, with several Conhundred tons of coal from a vessel sent from Liverpool for the purpose. Having left Madeira short United States. A year later she returned to Liverpool and was dismantled. Whether she was then a [8 more...]