HMS Assistance

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Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Assistance:

• {{ship|English ship|Assistance|1650}} was a 50-gun ship launched in 1650, rebuilt in 1699, 1712 and 1725, and sunk in 1746 as a breakwater.
• {{HMS|Assistance|1747}} was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1747 and sold in 1773.
• {{HMS|Assistance|1771}} was a transport launched in 1771 and sold in 1802.
• {{HMS|Assistance|1781}} was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1781 and wrecked in 1802.
• HMS Assistance was a prison hulk, launched in 1769 as the 74-gun third rate {{HMS|Royal Oak|1769|6}}. She became a prison hulk in 1796, was renamed HMS Assistance in 1805 and was broken up in 1815.
• {{HMS|Assistance|1809}} was a storeship launched in 1809 at Deptford and sold in 1821.{{cite book |last1=Winfield |first1=Rif |title=British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793 – 1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates |date=2008 |publisher=Seaforth Publishing |isbn=978-1844157174 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge8kCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT616}}
• {{HMS|Assistance|1850}} was a discovery vessel, formerly the merchant vessel Baboo. She was purchased in 1850 and abandoned in the Arctic in 1854.
• {{HMS|Assistance|1855}} was a screw storeship purchased in 1855 and wrecked in 1860.
• {{HMS|Assistance|1874}} was an iron screw storeship launched in 1874 and sold in 1897.
• {{HMS|Assistance|1900}} was a repair ship purchased in 1900 and handed over to Ward shipbreakers in part payment for {{RMS|Majestic|1914|6}} in 1937.
• {{HMS|Assistance|F173}} was a repair ship launched in 1944 and transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease. She was returned to the US Navy in 1946.