HMS Speedy was a 6-gun Nightingale-class cutter built for the Royal Navy during the 1820s.

[1] The Nightingale class was armed with two 6-pounder cannon and four 6-pounder carronades.

The ships had a crew of 34 officers and ratings.

[2] Speedy, the fourth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy,[3] was ordered in 1822, laid down in November 1827 at Pembroke Dockyard, Wales, and launched on 28 June 1828.

[2] She was completed on 2 November 1828 at Plymouth Dockyard.