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

She was to be built at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Captain John Taylor.

In 1662 the establishment for her crew was stated as 80/60/35 personnel dependent on wartime or peacetime and the number of guns carried.

[6] Merlin was commissioned prior to her launch in 1652 under the command of Captain Peter Warren to oversee her completion and final fitting.

She participated in the Battle of the Gabbard Sand[3] between 2 and 3 June 1653 as a member of White Squadron, Centre Division.

[6] She was taken by the Dutch off Cadiz, Spain while defending her convoy en route to Tangier, Morocco on 13 October 1665.