South Carolina, under Captain John Joyner, was attempting to dash out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, through the British blockade.

[2] A year later Diomede was with the British 50-gun ship Centurion, Captain Samuel Osborne, in a blockade of Île de France.

She took part in the Battle of Île Ronde when the senior French naval officer there, Commodore Jean-Marie Renaud, decided to try to break the blockade.

[1] On 23 July Diomede joined a squadron under Commodore Peter Rainier consisting of Suffolk, Hobart, Centurion, with troop transports, to participate in the British invasion of Ceylon.

[6] On 2 August 1795 Diomede was towing a transport brig when she struck a sunken rock in Black Bay and sank.

[7] She was working into the bay against a strong land wind when she hit the rock, which her charts showed as being a half-mile further north.

[6] Although the loss of Diomede delayed the landing by a day, on 31 August the British captured Fort Ostenburg, and with it Trincomalee.

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