The Bridgewater was a 52-gun third rate Speaker-class frigate built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Deptford Dockyard, and launched in December 1653.

[2] After the Restoration in 1660, the Bridgewater was taken into the new Royal Navy, and her name was changed to HMS Anne, renamed after Anne Hyde, the wife of James, Duke of York.

During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, she took part in the Battle of Lowestoft on 3 June 1665, the Four Days' Battle on 1-4 June 1666, and the St James's Day Fight on 25 July 1666.

Her reconstruction was carried out during the second Dutch war by Christopher Pett in Woolwich.

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