Incomplete plan 1811 by Edward Sison, Master Shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard, National Maritime Museum
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History | |
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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 |
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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.