Séduisant-class ship of the line
A 74-gun French ship of the line similar to the Séduisant-class ships 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 | 1,550 tonnes |
| Length | 56.3 m (184 ft 9 in) |
| Beam | 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in) |
| Draught | 7.4 m (24 ft 3 in) |
| Complement | 17 officers and 690 men |
| Armament | 74 guns |
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