Eleven ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Assistance'':
* was a 50-gun ship launched in 1650, rebuilt in 1699, 1712 and 1725, and sunk in 1746 as a
breakwater
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* was a 50-gun
fourth rate
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launched in 1747 and sold in 1773.
* was a transport launched in 1771 and sold in 1802.
* was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1781 and wrecked in 1802.
* HMS ''Assistance'' was a
prison hulk
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, launched in 1769 as the 74-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
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. She became a prison hulk in 1796, was renamed HMS ''Assistance'' in 1805 and was broken up in 1815.
* was a storeship launched in 1809 at Deptford and sold in 1821.
* was a discovery vessel, formerly the merchant vessel ''Baboo''. She was purchased in 1850 and abandoned in the Arctic in 1854.
* was a screw storeship purchased in 1855 and wrecked in 1860.
* was an iron screw storeship launched in 1874 and sold in 1897.
* was a repair ship purchased in 1900 and handed over to Ward shipbreakers in part payment for in 1937.
* was a repair ship launched in 1944 and transferred to the Royal Navy under
lend-lease
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (),3,000 Hurricanes and >4,000 other aircraft)
* 28 naval vessels:
** 1 Battleship. (HMS Royal Sovereign (05), HMS Royal Sovereign)
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. She was returned to the
US Navy
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in 1946.
See also
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References
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Royal Navy ship names
Assistance