History | |
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Name | Diligent |
Namesake | Head of Posts |
Builder | Lorient [1] |
Laid down | April 1762 [1] |
Launched | June 1763 [1] |
In service | August 1763 [1] |
Out of service | June 1779 [1] |
Stricken | 21 June 1779 [1] |
Fate | Broken up on 1780 [1] |
Notes | Offered by the Heads of Posts |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 1600 tonnes [1] |
Length | 57.2 metres [1] |
Beam | 14.0 metres [1] |
Draught | 6.8 metres [1] |
Propulsion | Sail, full-rigged ship |
Armament | 74 guns |
Armour | Timber |
The Diligent was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. She was funded by a don des vaisseaux donation from the headmasters of the Posts, and built on a design by Antoine Groignard. [1]
From 1773, she was part of the Saint Malo squadron. She was ordered demolished after only six years, and broken up in Brest in 1780. [1]
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