HMS Assistance (1781)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Assistance.
HMS Assistance was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She was launched during the American War of Independence and spent most of her career serving in American waters, particularly off Halifax and Newfoundland. Assistance was the flagship of several of the commanders of the station. She was in service at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars, and was wrecked off Dunkirk in 1801.
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H.M.S. Assistance in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, 1796, sketched by Captain George Gustavus Lennock, R.N. | |
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Name | HMS Assistance |
Ordered | 11 February 1778 |
Builder | Peter Baker, Liverpool |
Laid down | 4 July 1778 |
Launched | 12 March 1781 |
Completed | By 31 December 1781 |
Fate | Wrecked on 29 March 1802 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | 50-gun Portland-class fourth rate |
Tons burthen | 1,053 37/94 bm |
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Beam | 40 ft 8 in (12.4 m) |
Depth of hold | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 350 |
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