Séduisant-class ship of the line

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