1. AvisoAn aviso (formerly also an adviso), a kind of dispatch boat or advice boat, survives particularly in the French Navy, they are considered equivalent to the modern sloop. The Dictionnaire de la Marine Française 1788 – 1792 describes avisos as "small boats designed to carry orders or advices". French World War I avisos, used also during World War II, had displacement 300-700 tons, speed 13-20 knots, main armament usually of two 100 mm guns, two 138 mm guns or four 100 mm guns.
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