Thomas Crossan was an officer in the Confederate North Carolina Navy during the war. He later went to England and purchased the steamer Lord Clyde under orders from North Carolina Governor Vance and renamed the ship the Advance and began running the blockade. Its cargoes were property of the state of North Carolina and not the Confederacy.
The Advance ran the blockade 18 times (I'm not sure of this meant round trips or each way). It made the Wilmington-Bermuda so often and regularly, it was almost like Crossan had a time table.
One time the Advance made a daring dash through he Union blockading fleet in broad daylight, something few blockade-runners would attempt.
The Advance was finally captured by the USS Santiago de Cuba, partly because the ship had to resort to burning low quality coal.
A Famous Blockade-Runner. --Old B-Runner
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