She was first commissioned in 1690 under Captain
Thomas Gardiner, as the flagship of Vice-Admiral
George Rooke. In that capacity she took part in the
Battle of Barfleur in May 1692. She underwent her first rebuild at William Johnson's yard at
Blackwall Yard, from where she was relaunched on 6 May 1710 as a 90-gun second-rate built to the
1706 Establishment. By the following morning the British had developed a plan for escape; with some effort a hole was made in the hull and one sailor climbed the outside of the ship, re-entering at the gundeck. Obtaining a musket, he shot dead one of the French; the other leapt overboard but was persuaded to return to the vessel on a promise of being spared. Again in command of the vessel, the
Torbay crewmembers then reset course for Milford Haven. On 3 December they fell in with , whose crew assisted in bringing the captured ship into port ten days later. between HMS
London,
Torbay (in the middle behind
London), and the 74-gun
Scipion In 1759, under the command of Captain Augustus Keppel, the ship served in the
Battle of Quiberon Bay. ==Fate==