| Name: | VESTAL |
| Type: | Sailing Vessel |
| Launched: | 1798 |
| Completed: | 08/1798 |
| Builder: | Robert Gothard |
| Yard: | Newcastle |
| Yard Number: | |
| Dimensions: | 226tonsb, 84.2 x 25.3 x ?ft; (1804: 216tonsb, 84.3 x 25.3 x ?ft); |
| (1815: 301tonsb, 97.0 x 26.9 x ?ft) | |
| Engines: | None |
| Engines by: | n/a |
| Propulsion: | Sail, rigged as a Ship; (1804: Brigantine); (1815: Snow) |
| Construction: | Wood |
| Reg Number: | |
| History: | |
| 15/05/1798 | John Gray & William Richardson, Newcastle and Thomas Stamp Richmond, North Shields |
| 03/06/1799 | George Wakefield, North Shields |
| 13/09/1811 | William Richmond, North Shields; Thomas Stamp Richmond, Shadwell and |
| Jeremiah Abbs, Monkwearmouth | |
| 29/12/1813 | James Hutchinson, Newcastle |
| 09/02/1815 | James Hutchinson, Newcastle & Edward Cockfield, South Shields |
| 12/03/1818 | Registered at London |
| 02/02/1825 | Emmanuel Taylor, North Shields |
| 29/02/1848 | Emmanuel & Robert Taylor, North Shields |
| 1849 | Lost |
| Comments: | 1815: Lengthened & re-rigged by William Smith at Newcastle |
| 1849: Lost at sea at about this date |