Séduisant-class ship of the line

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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.

  • Séduisant
Builder: Toulon
Ordered: 1 June 1782
Begun: August 1782
Launched: 5 July 1783
Completed: 1783
Fate: Wrecked, 16 December 1796
  • 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, 2 August 1798

1783 — 1798  Wikidata
Seduisant-class ship of the line
2 produced, 
ship of the lineToulonFrench NavyFrance
CornélieJurien de la Gravière


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