HMS Assiduous was the former pirate vessel Jackal, captured in 1823. On 24 June 1824 Assiduous and captured a pirate schooner. Lieutenant Richard Dowse commissioned Assiduous in November 1824. After , a tender to , captured the slave ship Relampago, Carnation, , and Assiduous set out in pursuit of another slaver. They chased her into Cardinas (or Cardanas). There the Spanish authorities refused to permit the British permission to seize her, despite an inspection revealing that she had carried slaves. The vessel was Magico, and finally captured her in 1826.
The navy sold Assiduous on 5 May 1825.
Post script Vice Admiral Lawrence Halsted, Commander-in-Chief, West Indies, ordered and built on the lines of Assiduous.
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