HMS Assurance

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 served as part of the Commonwealth Navy. 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 was incorporated into the new Royal Navy and took part in the Battle of Lowestoft in 1665, the Four Days' Battle in 1666, and the Battle of Texel in 1673. She was reduced to a Fifth Rate in 1690 before being sold in 1698. Assurance was the second vessel to carry that name, since it had been used for a 48-gun galleon named Hope launched at Deptford in 1559, rebuilt and renamed Assurance in 1604 and broken up in 1645.