[1] She was ordered in April 1649 as part of the 1649 Programme to be built at Deptford Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Peter Pett I.

[1] She was commissioned into the Commonwealth Navy under the command of Captain Anthony Young in 1650 for service on the West coast.

At the Battle of Portland she was a member of Robert Blake's Fleet of eighty-four ships from 18 to 20 February 1653.

A few months later she was at the Battle of the Gabbard as part of Blue Squadron, Center Division under the command of Vice-Admiral James Peacock, on 2–3 June 1653.

When Admiral Tromp attempted to attack again on the 3rd, he withdrew when a squadron of eighteen ships arrived under the command of Robert Blake.

[1] This fight was followed by the Battle of Scheveningen where she was a member of Red Squadron, Van Division under the command of Vice-Admiral James Peacock on 31 July 1653.

After the Restoration in 1660, she was taken into the new Royal Navy, and renamed HMS Bonaventure after a previous ship built in 1621 that had been blown up in 1653.

[3] Bonaventure was rebuilt a third time in 1699 at Woolwich Dockyard, relaunching as a fourth rate of between 46 and 54 guns.

[4] She was rebuilt (and widened) at Chatham Dockyard in 1663 under the guidance of Master Shipwright Sir Phineas Pett.

She participated in the Battle of Lowestoft as a member of Red Squadron, Rear Division under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir William Berkeley, on 3 June 1665.

On 4 June she joined the Four Days' Battle' as a member of Prince Rupert's Squadron, Van division under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Christopher Myngs.

[2] As a member of Blue Squadron, Center Division under the command of Admiral Sir Jeremy Smith, she was at the St James's Day Battle on 25 July 1666.

[2] She sailed to the West Indies in the spring of 1667 with Rear-Admiral Sir John Harman's Squadron.

She participated in the Battle of Solebay as a member of Blue squadron, Van Division under command of Rear-Admiral Sir John Kempthorne, on 28 May 1673.

[2] On 17 August 1673 Captain John Wood took command to escort a convoy to Gibraltar in October 1674.

In 1688 She was under Captain Thomas Hopson with Dartmouth's Fleet in October the partook in Londonderry operations in 1689.

[3] In 1896 she sailed to Hudson Bay to recapture Fort York under the command of Captain William Allen.

She was renamed HMS Argyll prior to the Jacobite rising of 1715,[5] and on 27 January 1720 she was ordered to be taken to pieces at Woolwich for what was to be her fifth and final rebuild.

She was relaunched as a 50-gun fourth rate to the 1719 Establishment on 5 July 1722,[6] and saw much service in home and Atlantic waters.