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Photographer: R.G. Skerrett
Taken: 1899
Caption: Advance (Blockade Running Steamer, 1863-1864)
Additional Description: Advance, a 902-ton side-wheel steamer, was built at Greenock, Scotland, in 1862 for use as a River Clyde packet. Purchased by the State of North Carolina under the name Lord Clyde in 1863, she was renamed Advance (a name frequently given as A.D. Vance), and put to work running the Federal blockade. She was one of the most successful Confederate blockade runners, making more than twenty voyages before her capture by USS Santiago de Cuba off Wilmington, North Carolina, on 10 September 1864. Taken into the United States Navy soon thereafter, she served as USS Advance until June 1865, when she was renamed Frolic. Sepia wash drawing courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C., U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph [NH 61882].
Submitted: March 16, 2010, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p100659
File Size: 0.119 Megabytes

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