HMS Assurance

Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Assurance. A seventh was planned but never completed:

• HMS Assurance was a 38-gun galleon, launched in 1559 as the 48-gun HMS Hope, rebuilt and renamed HMS Assurance in 1604 and broken up in 1645.
• HMS Assurance (1646) was a 32-gun fourth rate frigate launched in 1646, and sold in 1698.
• HMS Assurance (1702) was a 66-gun third rate ship of the line, formerly the French Assuré built in 1697, captured in 1702 and broken up in 1712.
• HMS Assurance (1747) was a 44-gun fifth rate frigate launched in 1747 and wrecked in 1753.
• HMS Assurance (1780) was a 44-gun fifth rate frigate launched in 1780 and broken up in 1815.
• HMS Assurance (1856) was a wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1856 and sold in 1870.
• HMS Assurance was to have been an Amphion-class submarine, ordered in 1945 but cancelled later that year.