HMS Rye (1696)

[1] She was ordered on 27 December 1694 to be built at Sheerness Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Robert Shortiss.

In concert with HMS Weymouth she helped take the 46-gun Le Fougueux on 10 June 1696.

[8] She took the privateer La Marquise de Maintenon on 16 July 1697 and the L'Amitie on 28 August 1697.

In July 1702 under the command of Captain James Carlton on counter piracy patrol in the North Sea.

Upon her return she underwent a repair at Sheerness costing £1,183.6.4d[Note 4] from June to November 1714.

By AO 4 April 1727 she was to be sunk as a breakwater at Harwich during the month of July.