USS Advance (1862)

Advance (later USS Frolic) shortly after her capture by USS Santiago de Cuba in 1864
History
United States
NameUSS Advance
BuilderCaird & Co. (Greenock, Scotland)
Launched3 July 1862
ChristenedLord Clyde
Acquired(USN): 10 September 1864
Commissioned28 October 1864
Decommissioned31 October 1877
Renamed
  • Advance (A. D. Vance) (1862)
  • USS Advance (1864)
  • USS Frolic (1865)
StrickenOctober 1883 (est.)
Homeport
Captured
FateSold, 1 October 1883
General characteristics
Displacement880 tons
Length230 ft (70 m)
Beam26 ft (7.9 m)
Draught11 ft 8 in (3.56 m)
Propulsion
Speed12 knots
Complement107 (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.