The ''Séduisant'' class was a ''sub''-class of 74-gun
ships of the line
A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century. The ship of the line was designed for the naval tactic known as the line of battle, which depended on the two colum ...
of the French Navy, comprising two ships built at
Toulon Dockyard to a design by
Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb (Toulon, 5 July 1728 — La Seyne, 2 July 1803) was a French naval engineer.
Born to the Coulomb family of shipbuilders, Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb studied in Toulon and later in the shipbuilding school founded by Duham ...
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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''Séduisant''
:Builder: Toulon
:Ordered: 1 June 1782
:Begun: August 1782
:Launched: 5 July 1783
:Completed: 1783
:Fate: Wrecked, 16 December 1796
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''Mercure''
: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
The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; french: Bataille d'Aboukir) was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the ...
, 2 August 1798
References
*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. .
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74-gun ship of the line classes
Ship of the line classes from France
Ship classes of the French Navy