Elizabeth was a 32/38-gun fourth rate vessel of the Kingdom of England, one of four new frigates ordered and built under the 1647 Programme (the others were the Dragon, Phoenix and Tiger).

During the First Anglo-Dutch War, she missed all the major Fleet actions as much of the time she was in the Mediterranean.

[2] She was built at Deptford Dockyard on the River Thames under the guidance of Master Shipwright Peter Pett I.

She was a member of Blue Squadron, Van Division at the St James Day Fight on 25 July 1666.

On 19 August 1666, she came under command of Captain John Lightfoot for convoy duty off Virginia.

[9] Elizabeth was burnt in action with four warships of the Dutch off Jamestown, Virginia in the Penobscot River on 5 June 1667.

Captain Lightfoot was court-martialled anf found guilty of negligence; he was imprisoned for one year and dismissed from the service,[10] although he continued to serve in the early 1670s before disappearing in records.