USS Advance (1862)

Advance (later USS Frolic) shortly after her capture by USS Santiago de Cuba in 1864
History
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	Advance (A. D. Vance) (1862) USS Advance (1864) USS Frolic (1865)
Stricken	October 1883 (est.)
Homeport	Norfolk, Virginia New York City
Captured	by Union Navy forces 10 September 1864
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	steam engine side-wheel propelled
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.