She spent her career in the Mediterranean and was taken by the French off Cape Gato, Spain in April 1709.

She was the second named vessel since it was used for a 32-gun fifth rate built by Burgess & Briggs of Shoreham and taken by the French off the Scilly Islands on 1 August 1704.

[1] She was ordered on 16 March 1703 to be built at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Robert Shortiss.

Captain Richard Lestock took command on 29 April 1706 and she sailed for Home Waters in September 1706.

She returned to the Mediterranean to join Admiral John Leake's Fleet during the winter of 1707/08.