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| Name | Assistance (1855) | Explanation | |
| Type | Troopship | ||
| Launched | 5 April 1855 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | ||
| Propulsion | Screw | ||
| Builders measure | 1793 tons | ||
| Displacement | 2260 tons | ||
| Guns | |||
| Fate | 1860 | ||
| Class | |||
| Ships book | |||
| Note | 1860.06.07 wrecked near Hong Kong Wrecked 1860.06.01 | ||
| Snippets concerning this vessels career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 20 April 1857 - 30 July 1859 | Commanded by Commander William Andrew James Heath | ||
| 3 November 1859 - 2 July 1860 | Commanded by Commander Charles John Balfour, East Indies and China, until wrecked near Hong Komg | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Th 5 February 1857 | The iron steam troopships Transit, Resolute, and Assistance, are in an advanced state for re-commission at Portsmouth. | ||
| Tu 17 March 1857 | Artificers are employed from 5 in the morning until 10 at night in Portsmouth dockyard, to equip the gunboat squadron for China enumerated yesterday as fitting out at Portsmouth, and also the troopships and frigate Transit, Assistance, Adventure, and Furious. The Transit is so far complete that the was swung in Portsmouth harbour yesterday for the adjustment of her compasses, and the others are all well forward. The experienced hands of the ordinary flagship St. Vincent, Captain Eliott, and the steam reserve depôt ship Blenheim, Captain the Hon. F.T. Pelham, C.B., are helping in the rigging and fitting departments. | ||
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