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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 [1] (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.
This article needs additional citations for
verification. (September 2014) |
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 [1] (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.