HMS Jersey was a 40-gun fourth rate frigate of the English Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Maldon, and launched in 1654.

[1] In 1669, the diarist Samuel Pepys, while a member of the Navy Board, was temporarily named captain of Jersey as a legal maneuver to make him eligible to sit on a court-martial.

The expedition was commanded by Captain James Hamilton, later the 6th Earl of Abercorn.

The Jersey was commanded by Captain John Beverley RN.

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