Her new owners renamed her Ruby and she left the Downs in 1699 on a voyage to Persia for the EIC.

[2] The Royal Navy purchased Entreprenante on 27 March 1695 and commissioned her as the fifth-rate Ruby Prize on 15 April 1695 under the command of Captain Thomas Elkins.

[2] Ruby Prize was among the vessels that sailed with Admiral Russell on 27 February 1696 from the Downs.

[2] Apparently it required an Act of Parliament to authorize her to have the "Freedom of trading as an English-built ship".

[1] Captain John Barber sailed Ruby from the Downs on 28 April 1699, bound for Persia on a voyage for the EIC.