HMS Peterel (1860)

HMS Peterel was a Rosario-class sloop of the Royal Navy.

Peterel served three commissions as a warship, on the North America and West Indies Station, the Cape of Good Hope Station and the Pacific Station. In 1877 she became a lightship marking the wreck of HMS Vanguard (1870), then in 1885 she was converted into a coal depot before finally being sold in 1901, the longest lived of her class.

The ship's figurehead has survived and after restoration in 2005 was placed on display at the Apprentice Exhibition in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.