HMS Diligence

A number of ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Diligence.


 * HMS Diligence (1795) was a 18-gun brig sloop. She was renamed HMS Diligence before being launched in 1795.
 * HMS Diligence (1861) was a 17-gun Camelion class sloop laid down in 1861 but cancelled on 12 December 1863.
 * HMS Diligence (1915) was a destroyer depot ship, formerly the civilian Tabaristan, purchased in October 1915. She was scrapped in 1926.
 * HMS Diligence (F-174) was a repair ship, formerly USS Diligence (BAR-18) was transferred under terms of the Lend-lease Act to the Royal Navy and returned to the US Navy in 1946.
 * HMS Diligence was a base at Hythe, Hampshire for the minesweepers and motor torpedo boats of the reserve fleet, which opened in 1953.
 * RFA Diligence fleet repair ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, formerly the civilian MV Stena Inspector, purchased in October 1983.