Basing was a fifth-rate warship of the Commonwealth of England's naval forces, one of six such ships built under the 1653 Programme (the others were , , , , and ). She was built by contract with Master Shipwright Jonas Shish at his yard at Walberswick (near Southwold), Suffolk, and was launched on 26 April 1654 as a 22-gun Fifth rate. She was named "Basing" after the victory of Parliamentary forces under Oliver Cromwell in capturing the house of that name in Hampshire in 1645 after a protracted siege.
Her length was recorded as on the gundeck and on the keel for tonnage calculation. The breadth was with a depth in hold of . The tonnage was thus calculated at 255 bm tons. 
She was originally armed with 22 guns, comprising 18 demi-culverins on the single gundeck and 4 sakers on the quarterdeck. At the Restoration in 1660 she was taken into the Royal Navy and renamed as HMS "Guernsey". By 1665 she actually carried 26 guns, comprising 16 demi-culverins on the gundeck and 10 sakers on the quarterdeck. The "Guernsey" took part during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in the Battle of Lowestoft and the Battle of Vagen during 1665. In the Third Anglo-Dutch War she fought at the Battle of Texel in 1673. She was finally taken to pieces in 1693.