French ship Diligent (1763) explained
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.
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.