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.)

Captured: by Union Forces

10 September 1864

Fate: Sold, 1 October 1883

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Characteristics

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Displacement: 880 tons

Length: 230 ft.

Beam: 26 ft.

Draft: 11 ft. 8 in.

Propulsion: steam engine

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