HMS Rye was a member of the 1719 Establishment Group of 20-gun sixth rates.

[1] After commissioning she spent her career in Home waters on trade protection duties.

[2] Rye was the second named vessel since it was used for a 32-gun fifth ratelaunched at Sheerness in 1696, rebuilt in 1717 as a 24-gun sixth rateused as a breakwater from 1727 and broken in December 1727.

[5] She was commissioned in November 1727 under the command of Captain John Edwards, RN for service in Home Waters then on to Jamaica in 1731.

Her hull was sheathed with Doctor Hardisway's composition ('graved black') at Sheerness in November 1732.