Séduisant-class ship of the line
| 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
References
- ↑ The units of measurement pieds (feet) and pouces (inches) were Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution; they were slightly larger than the equivalent British feet and inches.
- Demerliac, Cmdt. Alain, Nomenclature des navires français de 1774 a 1792. Editions ANCRE, Nice.
- Winfield, Rif and Roberts, Stephen (2015) French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.
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