Séduisant-class ship of the line

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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.

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

References

The units of measurement pieds (feet) and pouces (inches) were Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution; they were slightly larger than the equivalent British feet and inches.

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. ISBN 978-1-84832-204-2.

French Navy ship of the line classes timeline, 1750s–1900s

Type	1750s–1760s				1770s–1780s				1790s–1800s				1810s–1820s				1830s–1840s				1850s–1860s				1870s–1880s				1890s–1900s
	50	55	60	65	70	75	80	85	90	95	00	05	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50	55	60	65	70	75	80	85	90	95	00	05
130 gun three-decker																						Bretagne
110-120 gun three-decker		Sans-Pareil class						Océan class
				Bretagne																Valmy
							Terrible class						Commerce de Paris class
90-100 gun two-decker																					Napoléon class
																Suffren class
																		Hercule class
80-gun two-decker			Saint-Esprit class
								Deux Frères				Bucentaure class
									Tonnant class
74-gun two-decker	Hector class
	Magnifique class
		Souverain class
		Diadème class
				Citoyen class
				Marseillois
					César class
							Magnanime class
							Annibal class
							Scipion class
							Pégase class
							Téméraire class
								Centaure class

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