During her time in the Commonwealth Navy she partook in the First Anglo-Dutch War being present in the battles of Dungeness, Kentish Knock, Portland, The Gabbard and Scheveningen.

For the remainder of her career she was in the West Indies, the Mediterranean and North American waters.

[2] She was ordered on 24 December 1649 to be built at Deptford Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Jonas Shish.

[8] She was commissioned in 1650 under Samuel Howett for service at the Downs and east coast.

She was a member of White Squadron, Center Division at the Battle of the Gabbard on 2/3 June 1653.

In early 1654 she came under the command of Peter Mootham and was with Robert Blake's Fleet in the Mediterranean.

[1] On 1 October 1661 Sir Thomas Allin was her commander for a voyage to Cadiz, Spain.

He was killed at the St James Day Fight (she was a member of Red Squadron, Center Division) on 25 July 1666.

On 17 May 1669 she was under Captain John Hayward with Sir Thomas Allin's Squadron in the Mediterranean.

She recommissioned on 22 November 1682 under Captain David Trotter, who died on 15 July 1683.

In March 1687 she was under command of Captain Lawrence Wright for service in Jamaica.

Captain Daniel Jones took over in 1689 and was in action off the Isles of Scilly on 4 October 1689.

Captain Hovenden Walker took command in 1695 for defence of a convoy in the English Channel on 30 April 1695.