Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Photo # NH 61882:  Confederate blockade runner Advance, wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SHIPS of the CONFEDERATE STATES --

Advance (Blockade Running Steamer, 1863-1864)
Also called A.D. Vance

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.

This page features all our views of the blockade runner Advance.

For views of this ship in U.S. Navy service, see:

  • USS Frolic (1864-1883).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 61882

    Confederate Blockade Runner Advance


    Sepia wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1899.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95662-KN (Color)

    Confederate Blockade Runner Advance

    At Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, in 1863.
    She is flying the Confederate First National Flag aft.
    Note her feathering paddle wheel.

    Courtesy of Charles V. Peery, 1984.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 53958

    Confederate Blockade Runner Advance


    Photographed at Nassau, Bahamas, in 1863.
    After capture in 1864, she became USS Advance, and was later renamed Frolic.
    See Photo # NH 95662-KN for another version of this photograph.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     

    For views of this ship in U.S. Navy service, see:

  • USS Frolic (1864-1883).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


    Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

    Page made 16 January 2001
    Link added 17 July 2002