French corvette Diligente (1794)
Incomplete plan 1811 by Edward Sison, Master Shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard, National Maritime Museum | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name | Diligente |
| Builder | Brest Dockyard |
| Laid down | June 1793 |
| Launched | 17 January 1794 |
| Captured | June 1800 |
| Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Diligente |
| Acquired | June 1800 by capture |
| Fate | Sold August 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 461 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen | 348+14⁄94 (by calc.) (bm) |
| Length | 31.75 m (104.2 ft) (overall) |
| Beam | 8.31 m (27.3 ft) |
| Depth of hold | 4.17 m (13.7 ft) |
| Complement | French service:187 (130 at capture) |
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Diligente was a French Navy Naïade-class corvette, launched in 1794 as a brig. HMS Crescent captured her in the Antilles in 1800. The British took her into service as a 14-gun transport and sold her in 1814.