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Name | Assurance |
Ordered | 20 May 1778 |
Builder | Randall & Co, Rotherhithe |
Cost | £20,922 |
Laid down | 11 June 1778 |
Launched | 20 April 1780 |
Completed | 15 July 1780 |
Commissioned | April 1780 |
Fate | Broken up March 1815 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Roebuck-class fifth-rate |
Tons burthen | 898 45⁄94 (bm) |
Length |
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Beam | 38 ft 2 in (11.6 m) |
Draught |
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Depth of hold | 16 ft 4+1⁄2 in (5.0 m) |
Propulsion | Sails |
Complement | 280 (300 from 1783) |
Armament |
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HMS Assurance was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1780. Commissioned in the same year, the ship served throughout the remainder of the American Revolutionary War on the North America Station. Her service there included capturing the American privateer Rattlesnake on 17 June 1781 and coordinating the evacuation of Savannah, Georgia, in July 1782. Having briefly served as a troop ship during the subsequent peace, Assurance was recommissioned in 1793 for the French Revolutionary Wars. Operating in the West Indies, she served in Sir John Jervis' fleet that captured Martinique, St Lucia, and Guadeloupe in March and April 1794, also playing a part in the capture of the French frigate Bienvenue on 17 March.
Assurance was given over to the Transport Board for use as a troop ship in 1796. With a stripped down armament she served in this capacity at first in the Mediterranean Sea and then returned again to the West Indies. Part of a convoy sailing from Martinique in 1798, Assurance assisted in saving the crew of the storm-stricken store ship HMS Etrusco on 25 August. The ship was then in ordinary at Woolwich Dockyard, serving as a receiving ship, between 1799 and 1815 at which point she was broken up.
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