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

[2] She was ordered on 7 April 1702 to be built at Woolwich Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Fisher Harding.

In 1703 she was under Captain John Cooper assigned to Sir George Rooke's Fleet bound for the Mediterranean.

During January 1705 Captain George Fisher was appointed her commander for service in the West Indies.

She captured in concert with Adventure the French 36-gun Les Jeux[Note 4] in the North Sea on 7 June 1706.

Around May 1708 Captain Chaloner Ogle was her commander assigned to Admiral Sir George Byng's fleet in the North Sea.

Upon returning home, she was fitted at Deptford for £5,147.10.5.25d (accounting for inflation £1,005,500) from September 1720 to January 1721, then was placed in Ordinary.

[3] She was ordered on 19 April 1733 to be rebuilt under the 1733 establishment as a 20-gun sixth rate at Deptford Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Richard Stacey.

HMS Tartar was commissioned in 1734 under the command of Captain Matthew Norris for service at New York.

She underwent a middling repair and fitting at Portsmouth at a cost of 2,900.12.9d (accounting for inflation £585,600) between November 1738 and March 1739.

She was recommissioned in January 1739 under Captain George Townsend for service at South Carolina.

She was patrolling in the Western Approaches in February the moving to the Orkney Islands in July 1742.

Upon her return to Home Waters, she uderwent a great repair and fitting at Deptford at a cost of £6,329.17.1d (accounting for inflation £1,331,200) between January and September 1747.

HMS Tartar was recommissioned in July 1747 under the command of Captain William Brett, then sailed for the East Indies to convey the terms of the peace treaty that ended the Austrian War of Succession.