Séduisant class ship of the line
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| Class overview |
| Name: |
Séduisant |
| Builders: |
Toulon |
| Operators: |
 French Navy |
| In service: |
1783-1798 |
| Completed: |
2 |
| General characteristics |
| Type: | Ship of the line |
| Displacement: | 1550 tonnes |
| Length: | 173 pieds 3 pouces[1] (56.3 metres) |
| Beam: | 14.2 metres |
| Draught: | 7.4 metres |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Complement: | 17 officers and 690 men |
| Armament: | 74 guns |
| Armour: | Timber |
| Notes: | Ships in class include: Séduisant, Mercure |
The Séduisant class was a sub-class of 74-gun ships of the line of the French Navy, comprising two ships built at Toulon Dockyard to a design by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb in the year immediately following the close of the American Revolutionary War. In reality these two ships followed his design for the Centaure Class, but were completed with a length greater by 5¼ feet,and had also slightly less breadth and depth in hold.
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 1 June 1782
- Begun: August 1782
- Launched: 5 July 1783
- Completed: 1783
- Fate: Wrecked, 16 December 1796
- Builder: Toulon
- Ordered: 1 June 1782
- Begun: August 1782
- Launched: 4 August 1783
- Completed: 1783
- Fate:Burnt by the British after the Battle of the Nile, 2 August 1798
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