HMS Assistance was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at a private yard on the River Medway to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment, and launched on 22 December 1747.[1]

Assistance served until 1773, when she was sold out of the navy.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Lavery, Ships of the Line, vol. 1, p. 173.

References

  • Lavery, Brian (1983) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.


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