HMS Assurance (1646)

The Fairfax (at the forefront), with Elizabeth astern of her, and Assurance or Tiger to their left, a painting attributed to Isaac Sailmaker. A ship is missing as part of the picture has been lost.
History
England
Name	HMS Assurance
Builder	Peter Pett I, Deptford
Launched	1646
Commissioned	1646
Honours and awards	Dover 1652 Kentish Knock 1652 Portland 1653 Gabbard 1653 Scheveningen 1653 Lowestoffe 1665 Four Days' Battle 1666 Oxfordness 1666 Schooneveld 1673 Texel 1673
Fate	Sold, 1698
General characteristics
Class and type	32-gun fourth-rate frigate
Tons burthen	340+81⁄94 bm
Length	106 ft 7 in (32.49 m) gundeck 89 ft 0 in (27.13 m) keel for tonnage
Beam	26 ft 10 in (8.18 m)
Depth of hold	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Sail plan	ship-rigged
Complement	190/160/120 by 1666
Armament	at launch 32 guns 1666 Establishment 10 culverins 26 demi-culverins 4 sakers 1677 Establishment 20 demi-culverins 18 6-pdr guns 4 sakers in 1685 10 culverins 12 demi-culverins 16 sakers 4 3-pdr guns

HMS Assurance was a 32-gun fourth-rate of the English Navy, built by Peter Pett I at Deptford Dockyard and launched in 1646. She was in the Parliamentary force during the English Civil War, then the Commonwealth Navy and was incorporated into the Royal Navy after the Restoration in 1660. During her time in the Commonwealth Navy she partook in the Battles of Dover, Portland, Gabbard and Texel. She foundered in a gale at Woolwich in 1660 and was salved. After the Restoration she partook in the Battle of Lowestoffe, the Four Days Fight and the Texel (1673). She was reduced to a Fifth Rate in 1690 before being sold in 1698.^[1]

Assurance was the second named vessel since it was used for a 48-gun galleon named Hope launched at Deptford in 1559, rebuilt and renamed Assurance in 1604 and broken in 1645.^[2]