HMS Diligente was the French privateer Diligente that HMS Cephalus captured on 22 February 1813.

Capture: On 22 February 1813 Cephalus, after a nine-hour chase, captured the French privateer lugger Diligente, Bonet, master, in the Mediterranean.

Diligente, of Marseilles, was pierced for fourteen guns but only had eight mounted; she threw four of her 12-pounder carronades overboard during the chase.

[5][6][a][b] Diligente arrived at Plymouth on 20 August 1814.

The "Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy" offered the "Diligent lugger, of 105 tons", lying at Plymouth, for sale on 15 December.