HMS Ruby was a 40-gun fourth rate[citation needed] frigate of the English Royal Navy, originally built for the navy of the Commonwealth of England by Peter Pett at Deptford, and was launched on 15 March 1652. She took part in numerous actions during all three of the Anglo-Dutch Wars of 1652-54, 1665–67 and 1672-74. She later served in the West Indies, and in 1687, the notorious English pirate Joseph Bannister was hanged aboard her while she was at Port Royal. She was rebuilt in 1687 at Sir Henry Johnson's shipyard at Blackwall.