A number of ships of the

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have borne the name HMS ''Diligent'' (or ''Diligente''). * was an 8-gun

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purchased in March 1770 that the Americans captured in 1775. * was the mercantile schooner ''Byfield'' purchased in 1776 and wrecked in the

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in May 1777. * was a 10-gun

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purchased in North America in 1777. The Americans captured her in 1779, scuttling her at the end of the disastrous

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. * HMS ''Diligente'' was a Spanish

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of 68 guns, launched in 1763 that the Royal Navy captured at the

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; she was sold in 1794 for breaking up. * was a schooner of eight guns that served between 1781 and 1790. * was a schooner of four guns purchased locally in 1790 for the Halfax station, decommissioned in 1795, and converted to harbour duties. * HMS ''Diligent'' was the storeship , renamed HMS ''Diligent'' in 1799 and sold in 1802. * HMS ''Diligente'' was a French corvette of 12 guns that captured in the Antilles in 1800. The Royal Navy took her into service as a 14-gun transport and sold her in 1814. * was a French

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of 16 guns that captured in the West Indies in 1806. The Navy renamed her ''Prudente'' in 1806, and ''Wolf'' in 1807. She was broken up in 1811. * was the French

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''Diligente'' that captured in 1813. The Royal Navy sold her in December 1814. * HMS ''Diligent'' was a tug mentioned in 1903. * HMS ''Diligente'' was a French patrol boat launched at

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in 1916 that served the Royal Navy during World War II as a depot ship for auxiliary patrol craft.

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