Her primary assignment was trade protection and counter piracy patrols in Home Waters and North America.

[1] She was ordered on 9 August 1695 to be built under contract by Thomas Ellis and William Collins of Shoreham.

Captain Benjamin Hoskins was assigned as her commander for guard ship duties at Plymouth in 1699.

Under his command she plied the Irish Waters and the North Sea on trade protection and anti-piracy patrols.

[8] She was wrecked along with three transports off Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, on 7 October 1711 while sailing to join the attack the French colony of Quebec.

An exhibit about the wreck is on display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia.