[Note 3] After commissioning she spent her short career in Newfoundland and Home Waters.

[1] Milford was the second name vessel since it was used for a 22-gun ship launched by Page of Wivenhoe in 1654, renamed Milford in 1660 and burnt by accident at Leghorn on 7 July 1673.

[2] She was ordered on 28 June 1689 from Woolwich Dockyard to be built under the guidance of Master Shipwright Joseph Lawrence.

[3] She was commissioned on 10 March 1690 under the command of Captain Charles Hawkins, RN for service on the Newfoundland fisheries.

In 1692 she came under command of Captain Rodger Vaughan for service in the North Sea,[4] HMS Milford was taken by a squadron of four French ships off Oxfordness losing 16 members of her crew killed on 1 December 1693.