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| Name | Vestal (1865) | Explanation | |
| Type | Sloop | ||
| Launched | 16 November 1865 | ||
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 187 feet |
| Propulsion | Screw | Men | 150 |
| Builders measure | 1081 tons | ||
| Displacement | 1597 tons | ||
| Guns | 4 | ||
| Fate | 1884 | Last in commission | 1880 |
| Class | Amazon | ||
| Ships book | ADM 135/489 | ||
| Career | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 16 November 1865 | Launched at Pembroke Dockyard. | ||
| 26 January 1867 - January 1868 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Commander Spencer Phipps Brett, west coast of Africa | ||
| 19 February 1868 - 29 May 1868 | Commanded by Acting Commander Henry Stair Sandys, west coast of Africa | ||
| (April 1868) - April 1874 | Commanded (until paying off at Bermuda) by Commander James Edward Hunter, west coast of Africa, then (January 1869) North America and West Indies | ||
| April 1871 - 9 August 1871 | Commanded (from commissioning at Bermuda until paying off) by Commander William Robert Kennedy, North America and West Indies | ||
| 14 July 1875 - 9 July 1877 | Commanded (from commissioning at Portsmouth) by Commander Henry Hand, East Indies | ||
| 6 July 1877 - 1 January 1879 | Commanded (until paying off at Zanzibar) by Commander Dashwood Goldie Tandy, East Indies | ||
| 23 July 1880 | Paid off. | ||
| December 1884 | Sold to Castle for breaking up at Charlton. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| Tu 25 July 1871 | The following vessels of war are now on their passage home for the purpose of being put out of commission and their crew paid off: - The Forte, 24, 2,364 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. H. Fairfax, flagship of Rear-Admiral J.H. Cockburn, commanding the East India squadron, and the Nymph, 4, 1,084 tons, 300-horse power, Commander R. Adams, from the East Indies; the Charybdis, 17, 1,506 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. A.M'L. Lyons, from the Pacific; the Virago, 6, 1,053 tons, 200-horse power, paddlewheel steamer, Commander H.S. Sandys, from Australia; the | ||
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