She was employed in trade protection and counter-piracy patrols in Home Waters and North America.

She was the first vessel to bear the name Fowey in the English and Royal Navy.

[1] She was ordered on 3 May 1695 to be built under contract by Thomas Burgess and William Briggs of Shoreham.

Her builder's measure tonnage was calculated as 37748⁄94 tons (burthen).

In 1697 sge was under Captain Richard Culliford and stationed at the Nore in the mouth of the River Thames.