HMS Vulture was a 10-gun two-masted Hind-class sloop of the Royal Navy, designed by Joseph Allin and built by John Greaves at Limehouse on the Thames River, England and launched on 4 May 1744, during the War of the Austrian Succession.

The Vulture set sail from Portsmouth as part of a joint Anglo-Dutch fleet under Vice Admiral Thomas Davers in September 1744.

[1] In the spring of 1746, the Vulture and the 14-gun sloop HMS Shark engaged two superior French men of war.

[2] The sloop was part of a squadron that sailed from Britain in 1747 under Admirals Anson and Warren.

[3] On 3 June, the Vulture intercepted the lightly armed Cherbourg dogger privateer L'Huitre in the English Channel between the British coast and the Isle of Wight.