French corvette Diligente (1794)

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.

Diligente
Incomplete plan 1811 by Edward Sison, Master Shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard, National Maritime Museum
History
France
NameDiligente
BuilderBrest Dockyard
Laid downJune 1793
Launched17 January 1794
CapturedJune 1800
Great Britain
NameHMS Diligente
AcquiredJune 1800 by capture
FateSold August 1814
General characteristics
Displacement461 tons (French)
Tons burthen348+1494 (by calc.) (bm)
Length31.75 m (104.2 ft) (overall)
Beam8.31 m (27.3 ft)
Depth of hold4.17 m (13.7 ft)
ComplementFrench 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
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