French corvette Diligente (1794)

Diligente

Incomplete plan 1811 by Edward Sison, Master Shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard, National Maritime Museum
History
France
Name	Diligente
Builder	Brest Dockyard[1]
Laid down	June 1793
Launched	17 January 1794[1]
Captured	June 1800
Great Britain
Name	HMS Diligente
Acquired	June 1800 by capture
Fate	Sold August 1814
General characteristics [1]
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)
Armament	Originally: 12 × 18-pounder guns + 6 × 36-pounder obussiers 1795: 12 × 18-pounder guns 1797 and at capture: 12 × 12-pounder guns British service: 14 guns

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.