First blockade runner from the South lands cotton at Nassau
December 5, 1861, Nassau, Bahamas.
- Date
- December 5, 1861
- Where
- Nassau, Bahamas
- What happened
- Other
- Event
- 17 of 174
The first Confederate blockade runner bound for England left Charleston and reached Nassau on December 5, 1861, with 144 bales of cotton. Cotton landed at Nassau was stored, then moved to neutral ships for England, usually Liverpool. By the end of the war 397 ships had sailed from the Confederacy to Nassau and 588 from Nassau to the Confederacy.