HMS Nightingale was a 24-gun sixth-rate ship of the Royal Navy, purchased in 1706 and in service in North America and English waters until 1716.

Nightingale was the fourth named ship since it was used for a vessel captured in 1626 and listed until 1628.

[1] Initially intended for merchant service, the vessel was purchased for naval use while still under construction at London's Blackwall Yard on 2 August 1706.

She carried a standardize armament of twenty 6-pounders on the upper deck (UD) and four 4-pounders on the quarterdeck.

In March 1709 she was under the command of Captain Charles Gay, RN for the North Sea.