USS Advance (1862)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Advance (1862), later known as the USS Frolic, was a blockade runner captured by the Union Navy during the closing years 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 down. The second United States Navy ship to be so named, Advance -- a schooner-rigged, sidewheel steamer built at Greenock, Scotland, by Caird & Co. was launched on 3 July 1862 as the Clyde packet Lord Clyde -- was jointly purchased by the state of North Carolina and the firm of Lord, Power & Co. to serve as a blockade runner during the Civil War. She was renamed Advance in honor of the Governor of North Carolina, Zebulon B. Vance. She completed more than 20 highly successful voyages and 40 close calls with Union ships standing blockade watches,

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  • Allgemeine Informationen
    • GTIN 09786131933165
    • Genre Technik
    • Editor Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
    • Anzahl Seiten 140
    • Herausgeber Betascript Publishing
    • Größe H220mm x B220mm
    • EAN 9786131933165
    • Titel USS Advance (1862)

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