Ten ships of the Royal Navy

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

Breakwater (structure)

Breakwaters are structures constructed on coasts as part of coastal defence or to protect an anchorage from the effects of weather and longshore drift.-Purposes of breakwaters:...

. was a 50-gun fourth rate 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 ship
  Prison ship
  A prison ship, historically sometimes called a prison hulk, is a vessel used as a prison, often to hold convicts awaiting transportation to penal colonies. This practice was popular with the British government in the 18th and 19th centuries....
  
  , launched in 1769 as the 74-gun third rate . She became a prison ship in 1796, was renamed HMS Assistance in 1805 and was broken up in 1815. 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
  Lend-Lease was the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of war in Europe in...
  
  . She was returned to the US Navy in 1946.