[2] The ship was to carry a collection of trees and plants to Australia for Sir Joseph Banks and they were tended on board by George Suttor.

After several abortive attempts to reach Australia the ship was condemned as unseaworthy, and the garden was transferred to the new HMS Porpoise.

The Navy renamed her Diligent in 1799 and sold her in 1802 at the end of the French Revolutionary Wars.

[1] Records in the National Maritime Museum for Diligent describe her as an "armed ship".

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