Aviso
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This article is about the ship and boat types. For the film, see El Aviso.
An aviso was originally a kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication.
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The term, derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word for "advice", "notice" or "warning", an aviso, was later adopted by the French and Portuguese navies to classify their medium-sized warships designed for colonial service. The term continued to be used in the French Navy to classify the D'Estienne d'Orves-class patrol frigates until 2012, when the remaining ships of the class were reclassified as offshore patrol ships. It is equivalent to the modern use of "sloop" in other countries.