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 | |
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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] |
Struck: | 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]
External links
- 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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