HMS Poole was a 32-gun fifth rate built by Joseph Nye & George Moore of East Cowes on the Isle of Wight in 1695/96.

She spent the first part of her career on trade protection and counter piracy patrols.

[1] She was ordered on 5 June 1695 to be built under contract by Joseph Nye & George Moore of East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

[6] HMS Poole was commissioned during 1696 under the command of Captain James Worthington until he drowned at Harwich on 16 October 1697.

She sailed with Vice-Admiral Matthew Aylmer's Fleet to the Mediterranean for the suppression of piracy.

She returned to Home Waters and patrolled of Dunkirk in the summer of 1701 as part of Captain Basil Beaumont's Squadron.

[Note 5] She was recommissioned around February 1726 under Commander William Hervey (promoted to captain in June 1727) to sail with Sir Charles Wager's Fleet to the Baltic.

The Fleet returned to Home Waters anchoring at Gunfleet on 1 November 1726 without having fired a shot in anger.