HMS Scarborough (1694)

She was commissioned under the command of Captain Thomas Killingworth for service in the Irish Channel. She was taken by the French privateers, the 36-gun Le Comte de Revel and the 22-gun L'Etoille off Tory Island, Northern Ireland on 18 July 1694.[8] 32 of the crew were killed including Captain Killingworth and 10 wounded. She was incorporated into the privateer squadron and renamed Le Duc de Chaulnes. She was recaptured on 15 September 1697 by HMS Plymouth and HMS Rye and renamed HMS Milford. She was recommissioned in 1700 under Captain William Moses for service on the coast of Africa. In 1701 she was attending on the King of Holland. In 1702 she was under Captain John Anderson. On 12 March 1703 she was assigned Captain Edward Windsor for service in the West Indies. On her return she was ordered to be rebuilt at Deptford in 1705.[3]

She was ordered rebuilt at Deptford Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Joseph Allin. She was launched/completed in December 1705. Her dimensions were a gundeck of 108 feet 7.5 inches (33.11 metres) with a keel of 88 feet 11 inches (27.10 metres) for tonnage calculation with a breadth of 29 feet 10 inches (9.09 metres) and a depth of hold of 11 feet 10.5 inches (3.62 metres). Her builder's measure tonnage was calculated as 42089⁄94 tons (burthen).[9] Her armament was 36 guns wartime and 30 guns peacetime, consisting of eight/six 12-pounder guns on the lower deck (LD), twenty-two/twenty 6-pounder guns on the upper deck (UD), and six/four 6-pounder guns on the quarterdeck (QD).[10]

She was commissioned in December 1705 under the command of Captain Philip Stanhope. She was off Ostend in June 1706 with Vice-Admiral Sir Stafford Fairborne to co-operate with the army in the siege of the town. The ships bombarded the town during the landing of troops and Ostend capitulated on 25 June.[11] In conjunction with HMS Fowey drove ashore and burnt the 60-gun Content then took the French 42-gun Le Mercure[12] on 8 January 1707. In March she was escorting HMS Resolution conveying the Earl of Peterborough to Italy. The small convoy was spotted by a group of French ships. The Earl transferred to Enterprise and escaped to Leghorn along with Milford. Resolution went ashore and was burnt to avoid capture.[13] She was in action at Minorca where Captain Stanhope was killed, on 17 September 1708. In September 1708 she came under the command of Captain John Goodhall (until 1715) serving with Whittaker's Squadron in the winter of 1708/09 and remaining in the Mediterranean during 1709. She sailed with a Newfoundland convoy then returned to the Mediterranean in 1711/12. She return to Home Waters in 1715 and underwent a small repair at Woolwich costing 1,099.11.91⁄2d[Note 4] between September 1715 and February 1716. She was commissioned in 1718 under Captain Peter Chamberlain for service at Jamaica.[9]