HMS Vestal was one of the four 32-gun Southampton-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy.

Vestal was in advance of the squadron when she sighted a sail ahead, and set off in pursuit.

Vestal had only her lower masts standing, and had five killed and twenty wounded.

[2] She returned to Spithead with her prize, which was bought into the Navy and renamed Repulse.

[4] In June 1759 Vestal was part of Rear-Admiral George Brydges Rodney's squadron, which bombarded Le Havre destroying flat-bottomed boats and supplies which had been collected there for a planned invasion of England.