French ship Diligent (1763)

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]

History
France
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

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]

  1. Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours, 1671 - 1870. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 151. ISBN 978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC 165892922.


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