Diligence-class destroyer

The Diligence-class saw almost ninety years of service in both the Colonial Military Administration (CMA) and the United Nations Space Command (UNSC). The first sixty-three years of that service were spent as CMA colonial cruisers, following the earlier Courageous, Swift, and Perseverance classes. In the same fashion as its predecessors, the Diligence ships were reclassified late in their service, undergoing a refit to carry a pair of outrigger magnetic accelerator cannons in 2496 and receiving the designation of light destroyer. Despite the upgrade, the class was deemed to be underpowered and insufficient for the increasingly deadly space combat of the Insurrection and the class was retired and the majority placed in reserve by the turn of the century. In the late 2520s, the high rate of attrition of ships during the Human-Covenant War compelled the UNSC to reactivate many decommissioned ships, including the Diligence-class. 
==History==
===Development and construction===
===Service===
==Design==
==Ships in class==
*UNSC Albion's Thunder
*UNSC Diligence (2433)
*UNSC Fidelity
*UNSC Golden Skies
*UNSC Gravesend
*UNSC Hammerfest
*UNSC Kronstadt
*UNSC Landrail
*UNSC Port Elizabeth
*UNSC Stalwart Europa
*UNSC Steadfast
*UNSC Vigilance
*UNSC Winged Hussar 
*UNSC Yalta
Category:Cruiser classes
Category:Destroyer classes