The Blockade Runners
English translation · Translated by N. D'Anvers
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Glasgow, 3 December 1862: crowds gather at Kelvin Dock to watch the launch of the Dolphin, a ship of about 1,500 tons with engines of 500 horse-power driving two screws, built for speed in shallow water. This is Jules Verne's novella Les forceurs de blocus, published in book form in 1871, here in the English version by Mrs. Arthur Bell, who wrote as N. D'Anvers.
Chapter titles such as Crockston's Trick, Sullivan Island Channel, A Southern General and Between Two Fires point to the American Civil War, when ships slipped past the Union blockade of Southern ports.
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- Author
- Jules Verne
- Reading time
- About 80 minutes
- Pages
- 51
- Language
- English
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