title: USS Advocate
text: # USS Advocate
  
  Two ships of the United States Navy have been named Advocate.
  
  * USS Advocate (1861) was a small fishing sloop captured from the Confederates on 1 December 1861.
  * USS Advocate (AM-138) was a minesweeper launched on 1 November 1942 and transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease
  
  ## Sources
  
  * This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
  