Class overview | |
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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.