English ship Forrester

Summary

Forrester was a fifth-rate warship of the Commonwealth of England's naval forces, one of two such ships built under the 1656 Programme. The two ships were authorised to be built on 8 April 1656 to be built in the state dockyards at Portsmouth and Deptford, but on 10 July the Council of State directed that the two should be built in the Forest of Dean, "to make the experiment of building frigates in the Forest".