HMS Diamond (1816)

History
United Kingdom
NameDiamond
Ordered30 June 1812
BuilderGeorge Parkin, Chatham Dockyard
Laid downAugust 1813
Launched16 January 1816
CommissionedMay 1824
FateBroken up June 1827
General characteristics
Class & typeFifth-rate Leda-class frigate
Tons burthen1,0761894 (bm)
Length
  • 150 ft 0+12 in (45.7 m) (upper deck)
  • 125 ft 1+34 in (38.1 m) (keel)
Beam40 ft 2+12 in (12.3 m)
Draught
  • 11 ft 2 in (3.4 m) (forward)
  • 15 ft (4.6 m) (aft)
Depth of hold12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
PropulsionSails
Complement315
Armament

HMS Diamond was a 46-gun Leda-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1816 after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, she was initially placed in ordinary before being fitted for service in 1824. Sent to serve on the South America Station, she conveyed the diplomat James Justinian Morier to Mexico on her way out. Diamond subsequently served in South America conveying the diplomat Sir Charles Stuart. While returning to Britain with Stuart in 1826, the ship recovered and repaired the wreck of the merchant ship Frances Mary. Out of service, on 18 February 1827 Diamond was destroyed in an accidental fire at Portsmouth and then broken up.