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Uss Advance (1862) Insert image
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| Ordered: | | | Laid down: | | | Launched: | 3 July 1862 | | Commissioned: | 28 October 1864 | | Decommissioned: | 31 October 1877 | | Fate: | | | General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 880 tons | | Length: | 230 ft (70 m) | | Beam: | 26 ft (8 m) | | Draft: | 12 ft (4 m) | | Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h) | | Complement: | | | Armament: | 1 20-pounder, 4 24-pounder howitzers | The second USS ''Advance was a sidewheel steamer in the service of the United States Navy. Advance was later renamed USS Frolic'' (it was the second ship to hold that designation as well). She was a fourth-rate ship of the line. Civil War Advance was originally built in Scotland as the Lord Clyde. It was purchased by North Carolina for Confederate military service in the American Civil War and renamed Ad Vance (after the Governor of North Carolina, Zebulon Vance). Ad Vance ran blockades successfully more than twenty times before being captured by USS Santiago de Cuba on 10 September 1864. The ship was purchased by the U.S. Navy, renamed Advance and commissioned on 28 October. In Union service, Advance joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, catching blockade runners. She participated in two assaults against Fort Fisher, the first in December 1864 resulting in a Union retreat and the second in January 1865 ending in the capture of the fort. The primarily roles of Advance in each attack were bombardment and landing support. The capture of Fort Fisher made blockade running an unprofitable risk for Confederate ships, and few tried to run blockades after that. Advance served mainly as a dispatch and supply ship for the next month. Advance then spent most of February at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for repairs, and was placed out of commission on 16 March 1865. She was renamed the second USS Frolic and recommissioned on 12 June, after hostilities had ended. USS Frolic On 24 June 1865, Frolic departed the east coast to join the newly formed European Squadron and arrived in the Netherlands on 17 July. Over the next four years, she made ceremonial visits to ports in Europe including many on the Mediterranean littoral. Those events reached a particularly high frequency during 1867 and 1868. On 22 March 1869, the ship departed Lisbon, Portugal to return to the United States. She arrived in New York on 30 April and was again placed out of commission on 8 May. Recommissioned on 24 September 1869, Frolic patrolled the fishing grounds off Nova Scotia between April and October 1870. She arrived at Washington, D.C., on 26 October 1870 and was decommissioned there on 11 November for repairs. On 18 January 1872, she was recommissioned and sent to relieve USS Tallapoosa on patrol off the New England coast. She concluded that assignment in May and returned to Washington on 24 January. In June 1872, she made the passage between Washington and New York. She served alternately as station ship at New York and on patrols at sea until 30 April 1874 at which time she was decommissioned at Philadelphia for repairs. Recommissioned on 18 August 1875, Frolic departed Philadelphia for duty on the South Atlantic Station a week later. She cruised the coasts of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil for a little over two years. She returned to Washington on 20 October 1877 and was decommissioned there for the last time on 31 October 1877. Frolic remained at Washington, in ordinary, until sold to Mr. J. P. Agnew, of Alexandria, Va., on 1 October 1883.
See USS Advance and USS Frolic for other ships of the same names.
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