Especially in stormy weather, these were effective blockade runners because the Carthaginian triremes had to keep their distance from each other due to the rough sea.
12.
Most Japanese troops never even came into contact with Allied forces, and were instead simply cut off and subjected to an effective blockade by the US Navy.
13.
They never managed an effective blockade of the Dutch coast and couldn't prevent the VOC-fleet from returning from the Indies ( Battle of V�gen ).
14.
Barbarossa found the Toulon base very pleasant and convenient, could refit his ships at the expense of France, and could maintain an effective blockade of Christian shipping.
15.
British convoy systems honed during the Napoleonic Wars limited losses to singleton ships, and the effective blockade of American and continental ports prevented captured ships being taken in for sale.
16.
In other words, in order to establish an effective blockade in this part of North Carolina, the forts that the state had set up would have to be captured.
17.
The Crimean War was a major setback to shipping industry, as the British navy puts up an effective blockade and the shipping fleet in Jakobstad was reduced from 26 ships to 9.
18.
It was decided that with winter approaching, it was impracticable to maintain an effective blockade of Navarino, and that in any event, the population of the Peloponnese had to be safeguarded.
19.
On 7 February, four weeks into the strike, the effective blockade placed on fuel stockpiles led to the CEGB cutting the voltage across the National Grid and warning of impending power outages.
20.
Colpoys'ships had formed an effective blockade : on 29 March they had taken the French corvette " Jean Bart " and the following day recaptured a lost British merchant ship.
