French ship Séduisant (1783)
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| Career (France) |    |
|---|---|
| Name: | Séduisant |
| Namesake: | "Seducing" ; Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau |
| Ordered: | 1 June 1782 |
| Builder: | Toulon |
| Laid down: | August 1782 |
| Launched: | 5 July 1783 |
| Commissioned: | 1783 |
| Decommissioned: | 16 December 1796 |
| Fate: | Wrecked, 16 December 1795 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Séduisant class ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 1550 tonnes |
| Length: | 56.3 metres |
| Beam: | 14.2 metres |
| Draught: | 7.4 metres |
| Complement: | 600 |
| Armament: | 74 guns |
| Armour: | Timber |
The Séduisant was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.
She was renamed Pelletier on 30 September 1793, in honour of Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau. Under Savary, she was one of the last ships of the line at the Bataille du 13 prairial an 2.
On 30 May 1795, she was renamed back to Séduisant. She sank accidentally on 16 December 1795 while leaving Brest for the Expédition d'Irlande. Out of 600 crew and 610 soldiers, only 60 survived.
