She was in active commission for the War of English Succession fighting in the Battles of Beachy Head and Barfleur.

Again in active commission for the War of Spanish Succession fighting in the Capture of Gibraltar and the Battle of Velez Malaga.

She was active in the War with Spain, capturing the Princesa then serving in Home Waters, the Mediterranean and finally the West Indies.

This was the first vessel to bear the name Lenox (also spelt Lennox) in the English and Royal Navy.

In 1690 she was commissioned for the War of the English Succession under command of Captain John Granvill for the Battle of Beachy Head in Centre (Red) Squadron on 30 June 1690.

[12][13] Service from 1702 to 1721 HMS Lenox was commissioned in 1702 under the command of Captain William Jumper to sail with Sir George Rooke's Fleet for operations at Cadiz, Spain.

She provided covering fire for the landing of troops at Rota on 15 August, driving the defenders from their batteries.

[14] On 21 September it was learned that a French Fleet and Spanish treasure ships were in the vicinity of Vigo Bay.

[15][12] After the arrival of Sir Cloudisley Shovel on the 16th of August, she remained with his Fleet moving to the Mediterranean in September 1703.

[18] On August 13, 1704, she fought in the Battle of Velez Malaga[19][4] as a member of the Van Squadron, suffering 23 killed and 78 wounded.

[20] In 1708 she was under Captain Richard Culliford sailing with Sir Christopher Byng's Fleet in the North Sea and the English Channel.

She was recommissioned in 1718 in response to the Spanish invasion of Sicily, under Captain Charles Strickland for service in the Mediterranean with Sir George Byng's Fleet.

[12] She was ordered rebuilt to the 1719 Establishment on 2 May 1721, at Chatham Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Benjamin Rosewell.

[22] She was commissioned in 1726 under the command of Captain Hercules Baker for service with Admiral Sir John Jenning's Fleet to check the hostile designs of Spain.

She sailed with Admiral Jenning's Fleet of nine ships of the line from St Helens in the Scilly Islands on 30 July to the Straits of Gibraltar and returning in October 1726.

She was readied for sea under the command of Captain Digby Dent to join Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Wager's Fleet.

[25] She in concert with Berwick was detached to join Vice-Admiral Francis Hosier in the West Indies on 13 February.

After much death due to disease and the loss of three Fleet commanders (Vice-Admirals Hosier and Hopsonn plus Captain E. St Loe (SNO)) Lenox returned to Home Waters 1729 to pay off.

After a small repair she was fitted at Portsmouth for £2,088.7.9d[Note 4] between June and August 1738 then reduced to a guard ship in December 1738.

She was detached along with Elizabeth and Kent, to cruise off Cape Ortegal for a month, then to return to England.

Lenox, Kent, Oxford, St Albans, and Ripon had been detached to watch for the Spanish Treasure Fleet.

He finally made it to sea in October then cruised of the North Coast of Spain returning to Spithead on 6 November.

In October 1744 she was under Captain Peter Lawrence sailing with Rear-Admiral William Martin's Western Squadron.

She participated in Commodore Cornelius Michell's encounter with Marquis de Conflans in the Windward Passage during 3 to 13 August 1746.

[34] By late 2015 the project had gained momentum, with more detailed plans fitting the building of the Lenox into the overall development of Convoys Wharf, as the old Dockyard site is now known.