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Assistant was a brig of 110 tons burden, armed with four 4-pounders and eight swivel guns, and carrying a complement of twenty-seven.[1]
She accompanied HMS Providence (1791) as tender on William Bligh's second breadfruit expedition from August 1791 to August 1793. Her commander was Lieutenant Nathaniel Portlock.
References
[edit]- ^ "HMS ASSISTANT". Bligh Encyclopedia. Pitcairn Island Study Center, Pacific Union College. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
External links
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Media related to HMS Assistant (ship, 1791) at Wikimedia Commons- Lieutenant Nathaniel Portlock's Logbook of the Assistant, with brief biographical notes
