HMS Blandford was a member of the Gibraltar Group of 24-gun sixth rates.

[1] After commissioning she spent her career in Home Waters and the Baltic on trade protection duties.

[4] She was commissioned in 1712 under the command of Commander Mungo Herdman, RN (promoted to captain in January 1713) for service in the English Channel then on to the Baltic in 1713 with a deployment to the Mediterranean in 1714.

[Note 1] She was under the command of Captain Erasmus Phillips, RN for service in the English Channel and the North Sea in 1717.

[5] HMS Blandford was lost with all hands during a storm in the Bay of Biscay on 23 March 1719.