Blockade - Blockade Running

Blockade Running

Blockade running is the practice of delivering cargo (food, for example) to a blockaded area. It has mainly been done by ships (called blockade runners) across ports under naval blockade. Blockade runners were typically the fastest ships available and often lightly armed and armored.

However, it is now also been done by aircraft, forming airbridges, such as over the Berlin blockade after World War II.

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Famous quotes containing the word running:

“It was far in the sameness of the wood;
I was running with joy on the Demon’s trail,
Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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