Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Saunders ya kasance a cikin sabis na kasuwanci kafin ya shiga Royal Navy a matsayin mai ba da agaji a 1689 a cikin Portsmouth, tare da Kyaftin George St Lo, kuma ya zama ɗan gajeren lokaci fursunonin yaƙi lokacin da aka kama jirgin a 1690. A watan Disamba na 1690 ya shiga Ossory tare da Kyaftin Tyrrell, wanda ya kasance a cikin Yaƙin La Hougue
Ka yi haƙuri. A ranar 28 ga Disamba 1692 ya wuce jarabawarsa, yana da shekara ashirin da ɗaya, bayan ya yi aiki a cikin sojan ruwa na kusan shekaru uku. A ranar 5 ga Disamba 1694 an daukaka shi zuwa laftanan, kuma a watan Janairun 1695 an nada shi Yarmouth tare da Kyaftin Moody. Daga 1696 zuwa 1699 ya kasance a Pendennis tare da Kyaftin Thomas Hardy. A shekara ta 1700 yana cikin Suffolk kuma a shekara ta 1701, a Coventry, tare da Hardy, kuma a shekara ta 1702 shi ne na farko na St George, babban jirgin Sir Stafford Fairborne. Ya kasance tare da Sir George Rooke a Cadiz da Vigo.