HMS Asia was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Thomas Bucknall and launched on 3 March 1764 at Portsmouth Dockyard.

[1] Asia saw early service in the American Revolutionary War, as a transport vessel for 500 Royal Marines sent to New York City in 1774 to quell rising tensions among the local population.

She arrived in New York Harbor on 4 December and remained there until later in the month when she joined a flotilla commanded by Admiral Richard Howe.

[3] Returning to New York Harbor, Asia supplied protection for the merchant ship Duchess of Gordon, which Royal governor William Tryon had established as an ad hoc office in October 1775.

[4] Asia was the ship on which Tryon and Loyalist Mayor David Mathews devised a plot to assassinate George Washington.

[5] She was present at the Battle of Brooklyn in August 1776, and later survived a fire ship attack led by American revolutionary Silas Talbot.

[7] In March 1794, Asia participated in the capture of Martinique by an expeditionary force under the command of Jervis and Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey.