HMS Diamond (1816)

History
United Kingdom
Name	Diamond
Ordered	30 June 1812
Builder	George Parkin, Chatham Dockyard
Laid down	August 1813
Launched	16 January 1816
Commissioned	May 1824
Fate	Broken up June 1827
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Fifth-rate Leda-class frigate
Tons burthen	1,07618⁄94 (bm)
Length	150 ft 0+1⁄2 in (45.7 m) (upper deck) 125 ft 1+3⁄4 in (38.1 m) (keel)
Beam	40 ft 2+1⁄2 in (12.3 m)
Draught	11 ft 2 in (3.4 m) (forward) 15 ft (4.6 m) (aft)
Depth of hold	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	315
Armament	UD: 28 × 18-pounder guns QD: 14 × 32-pounder carronades Fc: 2 × 9-pounder guns + 2 × 32-pounder carronades

HMS Diamond was a 42-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. Returning to Britain in 1826, the ship recovered and repaired the wreck of the merchant ship Frances Mary. Laid up at Portsmouth, on 18 February 1827 the ship was burned to the waterline in an accidental fire and then broken up.