HMS Vindictive was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Nicholas Diddams[2] at Portsmouth Dockyard and launched on 30 November 1813 at Portsmouth.

[1] This huge ship had a crew of 590 men under command of Captain John Toup Nicolas as flagship to Admiral Francis William Austen.

With the winding up of the Napoleonic War in prospect, she was not required for active service and was immediately placed in ordinary.

On 26 January 1842, she ran aground on The Dean, in the English Channel off the Isle of Wight; she was refloated the next day.

In 1861 she was fitted as a storeship by White of Cowes, and in 1862 she proceeded to Fernando Po, where she took up that role.