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His Majesty's hired armed cutter Diligent (or Diligente) served the British Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. She was a small vessel, of 44 tons (bm) and six 2-pounder guns, and she served from 27 February 1793 to 1 November 1801.[1] Diligent recaptured Myrmidon.[2] Myrmidon had been sailing from Newcastle with a cargo of lumber when a privateer captured her. Diligent sent her into Sheerness, where Myrmidon arrived around 14 July 1797.[3]Diligent, under the command of Mr. Matthew Randall, was in the fleet under Admiral Lord Duncan at the Battle of Camperdown on 11 October. Diligent{{'}}s role was to stand off the larboard or lee division and repeat signals.[4] After the battle, as a member of the fleet even though she did not participate in the combat, she was entitled to share in the £120,000 in prize money for the sale of the Dutch ships captured then.[5] In 1847 the Admiralty awarded the Naval General service Medal with clasp "Camperdown" to any surviving claimants from the action. Diligent{{'}}s officers and crew qualified.[6]{{refn|Steel gives the name of Diligent{{'}}s commander at Camperdown as Lieutenant Thomas Dawson, as does Norie, but the medal announcement unambiguously name Mr. Randall as her commander. Dawson does show up in later announcements.[7][8]|group=Note}} On 24 October 1798 {{HMS|Sirius|1797|2}} took two Dutch ships, Waakzaamheid and Furie in the Texel. The sloop {{HMS|Martin|1790|2}}, Diligent, and several other vessels shared in the proceeds of the capture.[9][10] At some point, Diligent, still under Randall's command, recaptured William and Freedom.[11] In 1799 Diligent, under the command of Thomas Dawson, was on the Downs and North Sea station.[12] Diligente was among the vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the galiot Neptunus on 29 March 1799.[13]Diligent participated in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in the naval part of the expedition under the command of Vice-admiral Admiral Archibal Dickson Andrew Mitchell. On 27 August, Diligent participated in the capture of three Dutch vessels.[14] Three days later, Diligent was among the British vessels at the Vlieter Incident, and therefore shared in the prize money for it too.[15]The sloop {{HMS|Inspector|1782|2}} and Diligent detained the Indian Chief, and some neutral vessels, on 30 August 1800.{{refn|Prize money for some bales of linen on Indian Chief, net of costs for the detained neutral vessels, amounted to £1 11s 6d for a seaman.[16]|group=Note}} On 15 December 1800, Admiral Archibald Dickson at Yarmouth Roads, sent {{HMS|Shannon|1796|2}}, {{HMS|Bittern|1796|2}}, the hired armed lugger Phoenix, and hired armed cutter Drake on a cruise to protect the homeward-bound Baltic fleet from French privateers, one having been reported off Scarborough. He stated in a letter that he intended to augment the patrol with Inspector and the cutters Hazard and Diligent when they arrived.[17][18] Notes, citations, and referencesNotes1. ^Winfield (2008), p.387. Citations{{reflist|30em}}References{{refbegin}}2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=14054|page=979|date=10 October 1797}} 3. ^Lloyd's List, no. 2939, - accessed 12 February 2014. 4. ^Duncan (1898), p.212. 5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=14089|page=120|date=6 February 1798}} 6. ^{{London Gazette|issue=20939|page=237|date=26 January 1849}} 7. ^Steel (1801), p. 27. 8. ^Norie (1827), p.54. 9. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15505|page=848|date=10 August 1802}} 10. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15462|page=281|date=16 March 1802}} 11. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15326|page=41|date=6 January 1801}} 12. ^Naval Chronicle, Vol. 1, p.264. 13. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15405|page=1111|date=8 September 1801}} 14. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15820|page=851|date=29 December 1805}} 15. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15533|page=1213|date=16 November 1802}} 16. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15844|page=1194|date=17 September 1805}} 17. ^Naval Chronicle, Vol. 4, p. 513. 18. ^Dickson's letter refers to Diligence, but there is no record of a hired cutter Diligence.
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