French corvette Diligente (1794)

For other ships of the same name, see French ship Diligente and HMS Diligent.
Diligente
Career (France)
Name: Diligente
Builder: Brest Dockyard[1]
Laid down: June 1793
Launched: 17-January 1794[1]
Captured: June 1800
Career (UK)
Name: HMS Diligente
Acquired: June 1800 by capture
Fate: Sold August 1814
General characteristics [1]
Displacement:461 tons (French)
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 x 18-pounder guns + 6 x 36-pounder obussiers

1795: 12 x 18-pounder guns
1797 and at capture: 12 x 12-pounder guns

British service: 14 guns

Diligente was a French Navy a Naïade-class corvette, launched in 1794 as a brig. HMS Crescent captured her in the Antilles in 1800.[2] The British took her into service as a 14-gun transport and sold her in 1814.

French service

Between 30 Mar 1794 and 29 May, Diligente was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Lacouture. Then from 9 June to 15 December Diligente was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Noguez. Under these lieutenants' command, Diligente conducted a cruise into the Bay of Biscay, returning to Lorient, visited Brest, cruised into the Atlantic, escorted a convoy to the Île-d'Aix roads, cruised the region around the Azores and returned to Brest, and escorted a convoy from Camaret to Saint-Malo.[3]

Between 18 March 1795 and 25 July Diligente was in Saint-Malo roads, cruised in the bay of Saint-Brieuc and bay of Granville, and returned to Saint Malo.[3]

Around 17 July 1797, Diligente escorted a convoy from Mindin (opposite Saint-Nazaire) to Larmor, while still under Noguez's command, who had by then been promoted to capitaine de frégate.[3]

Citations and references

Citations
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Winfield and Roberts (2015 forthcoming), Chap. 7.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15295. p. 1082. 20 September 1800.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Fonds Marine, 1790-1804.
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