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A 'blockade runner' is a ship designed to provide vital supplies to countries or areas blockaded by enemy forces during wartime. Notable users of blockade runners include the Confederate States of America and Nazi Germany.
The term "blockade runner" has also been used by science fiction and fantasy writers for spaceships serving a similar purpose. Perhaps the best known example is the Corellian Corvette Tantive IV in ''.
==Blockade Runners of the American Civil War wrecked at Charleston, South Carolina==
''Note: The following information was taken with permission from ''Treasures of the Confederate Coast: The "Real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations'' by Dr. E. Lee Spence (Narwhal Press, Charleston/Miami, 1995).''

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1861

1862

1863

1864

1865

See also

1861

★ ''Thomas Watson'', privateer ship, lost inbound on Stono Breakers several miles from Folly Beach, October 15, 1861.

1862

★ ''Edwin'', schooner, lost inbound near Lighthouse Inlet, Morris Island on May 8, 1862.

★ ''Minho'', 3 masted screw steamer, lost inbound on wreck near Bowman's Jetty, Sullivan's Island, on October 20, 1862.

★ ''Nellie'' (or ''Nelly'', ex-''Cawtawba'', ex-''Governor Dudley''), sidewheel steamer, lost inbound off Dewees Island on May 25, 1862.

★ ''Samuel Adams'', schooner, lost inbound on western end of Long Island (present day Isle of Palms) on April 12, 1862.

★ ex-''Experiment'', schooner, lost inbound on Long Island (present day Isle of Palms) on April 2, 1862.

1863

★ ''Georgiana'', screw steamer, lost inbound off Long Island (present day Isle of Palms) on March 19, 1863.

★ ''Norseman'' (or ''Norman''), small screw steamer, lost outbound on Long Island (present day Isle of Palms) on May 15, 1863.

★ ''Raccoon'', sidewheel steamer, lost inbound on Drunken Dick Shoals, off Sullivan's Island, July 19, 1863.

★ ''Ruby'', sidewheel steamer, lost on Folly Breakers, Lighthouse Inlet, south end of Morris Island, June 10, 1863.

★ ''Stonewall Jackson'' (ex-''Leopard''), sidewheel steamer, lost on Long Island (present day Isle of Palms) on April 12, 1863.

★ ''Stono'', (ex-USS Isaac Smith) lost outbound on Bowman's Jetty on Sullivan's Island, June 5, 1863.

★ ''Tropic'' (ex-CSS ''Huntress''), sidewheel steamer, burned while attempting run into Charleston on January 8, 1863.

1864

★ ''Beatrice'', sidewheel steamer, lost inbound near Bowman's Jetty, Sullivan's Island on November 27, 1864.

★ ''Constance'' (''Constance Decimer''), sidewheel steamer, lost inbound off ''Long Island'' (present day Isle of Palms) on October 6, 1864.

★ ''Etiwan'', sidewheel steamer, lost on Fort Johnson Reef, Charleston Harbor on June 7, 1864.

★ ''Flamingo'', sidewheel steamer, three stacks, lost off Sullivan's Island on October 23, 1864.

★ ''Flora'', sidewheel steamer, lost on Drunken Dick Shoals opposite Battery Rutledge, Sullivan's Island on October 22, 1864.

★ ''Mary'', schooner, burned off Morris Island on November 5, 1864.

★ ''Mary Bowers'', sidewheel steamer, lost inbound off Long Island (present day Isle of Palms) on August 31, 1864.

★ ''Presto'' (a.k.a. ''Fergus''), sidewheel steamer, lost inbound opposite Battery Rutledge on Sullivan's Island, February 2, 1864.

★ ''Prince Albert'', screw steamer, lost inbound on Bowman's Jetty, Sullivan's Island on August 9, 1864.

★ unidentified small sloop, with cotton and turpentine, lost near Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, November 5, 1864.

1865

★ ''Celt'' (or ''Colt''), sidewheel steamer, lost on Bowman's Jetty, Sullivan's Island, on February 14, 1865.

★ ''John Randolph'', sidewheel steamer, lost on Sullivan's Island on January 20, 1865.

★ ''Rattlesnake'', twin screw steamer, lost inbound at Breach Inlet, January, 1865.

See also

★ Union blockade