Assistant was a brig of 110 tons burden, armed with four 4-pounders and eight swivel guns, and carrying a complement of twenty-seven.
She accompanied as tender on William Bligh's second breadfruit expedition from August 1791 to August 1793. Her commander was Lieutenant Nathaniel Portlock.
References
External links
Lieutenant Nathaniel Portlock's Logbook of the Assistant, with brief biographical notes