HMS Diligent (1806)

History
France
Name	Diligent
Builder	Jean Fouache and Enterprise Thibaudier,[1] Le Havre
Laid down	August 1800
Launched	25 June 1800
Captured	May 1806
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Diligent
Acquired	By capture May 1806
Renamed	HMS Prudente (October 1806) HMS Wolf (September 1807)
Fate	Sold in 1811
General characteristics [2]
Type	Brig
Displacement	between 349 & 373 tons[1]
Tons burthen	31785⁄94 (bm)
Length	93 ft 6 in (28.5 m) (overall) 75 ft 4 in (23.0 m) (keel)
Beam	28 ft 2 in (8.6 m)
Depth of hold	7 ft 3 in (2.2 m)
Complement	French service:105[1] British service:95
Armament	French service: 14 × 6-pounder guns 2 × 32-pounder brass carronades British service: 14 × 24-pounder carronades 2 × 6-pounder bow chasers

HMS Diligent was the French naval brig Diligent, launched in 1800, that HMS Renard captured in 1806. The Royal Navy took her into service under her existing name, which it later changed, first to Prudente, and then to Wolf. During her two years of active duty with the Royal Navy she captured two small privateers. Wolf was laid up in 1808 and sold in 1811.