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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 (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.


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