HMS Experiment (1689)

[Note 3] After commissioning she spent her career in Home Waters, North America, Mediterranean and the West Indies.

[3] She was ordered on 28 June 1689 from Chatham Dockyard to be built under the guidance of Master Shipwright Robert Lee.

In January Captain James Greenaway, RN was in command with Wheeler's squadron in the West Indies.

[5] In 1701 Captain Richard Paul, RN took command for Whetstone's squadron in the West Indies.

In November 1708 Captain James Hemmington, RN was with Mighells's squadron in the North Sea.

[7] In March 1711 Captain Mathew Elford, RN was in command for service in North America and Jamaica.

[8] She recommissioned under Captain Edmund Hooke, RN for service at Sale, Morocco in 1718.

[Note 6][12] She was commissioned in January 1728 under the command of Captain Henry Reddish, RN for cruising off Newfoundland.

She was recommissioned in 1732 under the command of Captain John StLo, RN for service in the West Indies.