HMS Diligent participated in the expedition that was mounted during the Revolutionary war by which group?
HMS Diligent (1777):  She then participated in the disastrous Penobscot Expedition where her crew her crew had to scuttled her in August to prevent the British from capturing her. Penobscot Expedition: The Penobscot Expedition was a 44-ship American naval task force mounted during the Revolutionary War by the Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Provincial Congress of the Province of Massachusetts Bay