HMS Deal Castle was a member of the standardized 20-gun sixth rates built at the end of the 17th century.

After she was commissioned she was in Newfoundland, the West Indies, the Irish Sea, Jamaica, and back to Home Waters.

[2] She was ordered in the Fourth Batch of four ships from Deptford Dockyard to be built under the guidance of their Master Shipwright, Fisher Harding.

[3] She was commissioned on 28 October 1697 under the command of Captain Henry Fowles, RN.

In 1700, Captain Edmund Doyley, RN assumed command and sailed to North America and the West Indies in 1700 and 1701.