The English ship Martin was a 14-gun sixth rate vessel built under the 1651 Programme at Portsmouth Dockyard for the Commonwealth of England in 1651/52.

[1] She was awarded the Battle Honours Dover 1652,[2] Portland 1653,[3] Gabbard 1653,[4] and Lowestoft 1665[5] On 5 December 1651, the Admiralty ordered that three small vessels be built.

In 1677 the establishment for her crew was stated as 75/65/45 personnel dependent on wartime or peacetime and the number of guns carried.

[13] She followed this action with the Battle of the Gabbard Sand[4] between 2 and 3 June 1653 as a member of Red Squadron, Centre Division.

Their objective was to attack and capture Hispaniola (present day Santo Dominica).

After the failure of General Robert Venables, the land force commander, Admiral Penn left and sailed on to Jamaica.

He took command of the attack, transferring his Flag to Martin to assail the town of Port Royal.

[16] In 1654 Captain John Blythe was her commander sailing with Vice-Admiral William Goodson's Squadron in the West Indies in 1656.

She participated in the Battle of Lowestoft[5] as a member of Red Squadron, Van Division on 3 June 1665.