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    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...
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  • that year. HMS Diligence (1795) was an 18-gun brig sloop. Originally HMS Spencer, she was renamed HMS Diligence before being launched in 1795. She was lost...
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  • HMS Discovery (1774) was an 8-gun discovery vessel launched in 1774 as the civilian collier Diligence. She was acquired in 1775, and accompanied HMS Resolution...
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    HMS Kangaroo was British Royal Navy 18-gun brig-sloop of the Diligence class, launched in 1795 at Deptford, England. She served in Home Waters and the...
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    HMS Seagull (or Sea-Gull), was a Royal Navy Diligence-class brig-sloop, launched in 1795. During the French Revolutionary Wars she shared in the capture...
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  • the name HMS Spencer. A third was renamed before being launched: HMS Spencer was to have been an 18-gun brig sloop. She was renamed Diligence before being...
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    HMS Racoon (or Raccoon) was a brig-sloop built and launched in 1795. She served during the French Revolutionary Wars and in the beginning of the Napoleonic...
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    HMS Cameleon (or Camelion) was a Royal Navy Diligence-class brig-sloop, launched in 1795. She was built of fir (pitch pine), which allowed for rapid construction...
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  • in 1804 before she had embarked any slaves. Diligence (1800 ship) or Diligent was launched in Spain in 1795 and came into British ownership as a French...
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  • decommissioned in 1795, and converted to harbour duties. HMS Diligent was the storeship HMS Porpoise, renamed HMS Diligent in 1799 and sold in 1802. HMS Diligente...
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    HMS Curlew was an 18-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, commissioned in June 1795 under Commander Francis Ventris Field for Admiral Duncan's fleet. On 31...
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  • HMS Diligent (or Diligente, or Diligence), was a small mercantile schooner that the Royal Navy purchased locally in 1790 for the Nova Scotia station. She...
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    casualties. On 6 September 1797 she was in company with HMS Diligence and HMS Renommee when Diligence captured a Spanish 6-gun packet ship with troops on...
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    ship-sloop launched in 1795 that the Royal Navy captured in November 1796. She was taken into service as HMS Aetna and renamed to HMS Cormorant the next year...
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    Pervie 1795 – The enslaving ship Æolus repels an attack by a French privateer 1795, January 4 – HMS Blanche captures Pique 1795, March 13 – HMS Lively...
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    HMS Queen Charlotte was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 15 April 1790 at Chatham. She was built to the draught of...
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  • for excessive brutality. On 6 September 1797, and in company with HMS Diligence and HMS Renommee, his ship captured a 6-gun Spanish privateer. Midshipman...
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    HMS Alarm was a 32-gun fifth-rate Niger-class frigate of the Royal Navy, and was the first Royal Navy ship to bear this name. She was built at King's...
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    HMS America was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by John Williams and built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and was...
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  • Thunderer rescued the crew of HMS Diligence which had struck a reef off the north coast of Cuba. The British set fire to Diligence as they left. It turned out...
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    Battle of the Hyères Islands (category Conflicts in 1795)
    reference to the sea battles of 1795 that "Once more a French fleet had got away through a lack of energy and diligence on the part of a British Admiral...
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  • HMS Inspector was launched at Wivenhoe in 1782 as the only vessel built to her design. She participated in one campaign and also captured a handful of...
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    HMS Vengeance was originally the 48-gun French Navy frigate Vengeance and lead ship of her class. She engaged USS Constellation during the Quasi-War,...
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    HMS Harpy was a Royal Navy Diligence-class brig-sloop, launched in 1796 and sold in 1817. She was the longest lived vessel of her class, and the most widely...
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    June 1795, during the French Revolutionary Wars. Promoted to commander on 7 September 1795, West became commanding officer of the sloop HMS Diligence on...
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  • requisitioned her on 21 April 1794. In May 1795, the French Navy returned the ship to her owners for use as a privateer. HMS Endymion captured her off the Irish...
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    who was judged to demonstrate "the most distinguished proofs of skill, diligence, humanity and learning in the exercise of their professional duties"....
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    a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Africa. HMS Fishguard recaptured Dick on 16 October. Diligence ( Great Britain): The ship was captured in the North...
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    sloop HMS Diligence by Sir George Brydges Rodney in 1773, and Knowles went on to serve in this capacity aboard HMS Princess Amelia, HMS Portland and HMS Guadeloupe...
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    HMS Renommee, under the command of Captain Robert Rolles. On 6 September 1797 she was in company with HMS Diligence and HMS Hermione when Diligence captured...
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