Maritime History

HMS Diligence (1795)

HMS Diligence was the name ship of her class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1795 and lost in 1800. She spent her brief career on the Jamaica station where she captured four armed vessels, one of them after a short engagement, and many small Spanish and French merchant vessels in the Caribbean inter-island and coastal trade.

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See also

• ▸Great South Wall
• ▸Hinode (satellite)
• ▸HMS Active (1799)

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