Primrose was a fifth-rate warship of the Commonwealth of England's naval forces, one of four such ships built under the 1651 Programme (the other three were Pearl, Mermaid and Nightingale).

She was built under contract at Captain John Taylor's shipyard at Wapping, and was launched in July 1651.

The breadth was 25 feet 1 inch (7.6 metres) with a depth in hold of 10 ft 0 in (3.0 m).

After commissioning she spent her early career in the English Channel, searching for Spanish frigates.

On 13 March 1656 the Primrose grounded on the Seven Stones Reef off Land's End and foundered.