Service History
DateEventSource1650Completed at Deptford Dockyard
at a cost of £3378.15.0dBWAS-16034.1650Completed at Deptford Dockyard
at a cost of £3378.15.0dBWAS-160319.5.1652Battle of Dover22.5.1652Action of 1652-05-228.1652Sent by Robert Blake to reinforce Sir George Ayscue in company with Convertine, Convert , Sampson , and Golden Dove
SPD-1652-325.9.1652Vice-Admiral William Penn sent Capt. Howett in the Foresight , and Capt. Graves in the President, frigates, to ply to windward, to discover the Dutch and bring intelligence28.9.1652Battle of Kentish Knock12.1652Sent a ship of Lubeck into Plymouth8.12.1652In Portsmouth27.12.1652Entered Portsmouth harbour, having been in commission for 13 months1653Refitted as a 44 gunner13.1.1652/53A request for a new purser, the incumbant having died, and a new steward, the old one being undeserving, was made to the admiralty Commitee18.2.1652/53Battle of Portland3.3.1652/53At the Battle of Portland took a Dutch man-of-war of about 500 tons and 30 guns and carried her into Portsmouth2.6.1653Battle of the Gabbard18.6.1653In Harwich to be careened2.7.1653Left Harwich in company with the 3.7.1653The President lost her bowsprit and foremast and put into the Thames31.7.1653Battle of Scheveningen1660Refitted as a 38 gunner1660Renamed BonaventureB028