title: Aid-class storeship
text: # Aid-class storeship
  
  The Aid class of Royal Navy ships were the only purpose-built auxiliary ships constructed for the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The vessels were designed in 1808 by the Surveyors of the Navy for both transport and storage.
  
  | Name | Built by | Ordered | Laid down | Launched | Fate |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Aid | Josiah & Thomas Brindly, Kings Lynn | 1808 | July 1808 | 4 April 1809 | Converted to survey ship in 1816, sold 1853 |
  | Assistance | John Dudman, Deptford | 1808 | October 1808 | 7 March 1809 | Sold 1821 |
  | Chatham | Josiah & Thomas Brindly, Frindsbury | 1810 | October 1810 | 22 June 1811 | Broken up 1864 |
  | Portsmouth | Milford Dockyard | 1810 | October 1810 | 29 September 1811 | Broken up 1834 |
  | Diligence | Jabez Bayley, Ipswich | 1813 | October 1813 | 30 October 1814 | Sold 1904 |
  | Industry | James Warwick, Eling | 1813 | January 1814 | 13 October 1814 | Broken up 1846 |
  