HMS Diligent (1776)

HMS Diligent was the mercantile schooner Byfield, which the Royal Navy purchased in 1776.

[1] The Royal Navy commissioned Diligent under the command of Lieutenant Edmund Dod in July 1776.

[1] On 18 May 1777 Dod went aboard Scarborough, Captain Andrew Barkley, that Diligent "was beat to pieces upon the Gannet Rock Ledges".

[2] A report, in the Independent Chronicle of 19 June 1777, dated Halifax 27 May, stated that Diligent was lost on the Gannet Rocks in the Bay of Fundy, and that the transport brig Berry had carried officers and crew to Annapolis Royal.

She ended up on her side and her crew spent the night holding on to her upturned hull.