&sq=&lang=&file=File:SS_A._D._Vance.jpg) Advance (later USS Frolic) shortly after her capture by USS Santiago de Cuba in 1864
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| History | |
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  United States | |
| Name | USS Advance |
| Builder | Caird & Co. (Greenock, Scotland) |
| Launched | 3 July 1862 |
| Christened | Lord Clyde |
| Acquired | (USN): 10 September 1864 |
| Commissioned | 28 October 1864 |
| Decommissioned | 31 October 1877 |
| Renamed |
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| Stricken | October 1883 (est.) |
| Homeport |
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| Captured |
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| Fate | Sold, 1 October 1883 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 880 tons |
| Length | 230 ft (70 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 12 knots |
| Complement | 107 (from 1864) |
| Armament | (from 1864)
one 20-pounder rifle four 24-pounder howitzers |
USS Advance, the second United States Navy ship to be so named, was later known as USS Frolic, and was originally the blockade runner Advance captured by the Union Navy during the latter part of the American Civil War. She was purchased by the Union Navy and outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America. She also served as dispatch ship and supply vessel when military action eventually slowed.