Marigold was a 30-gun fourth rate vessel of the Kingdom of England, She was purchased from Portugal by Royalist agents then captured and commissioned into the Parliamentary Naval Force as Marigold.

She conducted fishery protection duties, sailed to the West Indies and finally was with the Fleet off Cadiz.

[1] Marigold was the first named vessel in the English or Royal Navy.

[3] She was commissioned into the Commonwealth Navy in 1652 under the command of Captain Humphrey Felstead for fishery protection off Scotland and Ireland.

From 1656 through 1657 she was under the command of Captain George Kendall serving with Robert Blake's Fleet off Cadiz, Spain.