Newbury was a 52-gun third rate Speaker-class frigate built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England at Limehouse, and launched in 1654.

[2] During the war against Spain, she took part in Blake's fleet in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1657).

After the Restoration in 1660, she was taken into the new Royal Navy and renamed HMS Revenge.

She spent some time carrying the flag of the senior captain of Prince Rupert's white (van) squadron, commanded by Robert Holmes.

By 1665 her ordnance was officially 58 guns, but in war she actually carried 69, comprising 22 demi-cannon, 4 culverins, 30 demi-culverins, and 10 sakers, plus 2 3-pounders and a solitary falcon on the poop.