Name Séduisant Builder Toulon Commissioned 1783 Launched 5 July 1783 Weight 1,550 tons Draft 7.4 m | Ordered 1 June 1782 Laid down August 1782 Construction started August 1782 Length 56 m Displacement 1.55 million kg Beam 14 m | |
Namesake As Séduisant; French "Seducing"As Pelletier; Louis-Michel le Pelletier | ||
Séduisant was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, lead ship of her class.
She was renamed Pelletier on 30 September 1793, in honour of Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau. Under Savary, she was one of the last ships of the line at the Glorious First of June.
On 30 May 1795 her name was changed back to Séduisant. She sank accidentally on 16 December 1796 while leaving Brest for the Expédition d'Irlande. Out of 600 crew and 610 soldiers, only 60 survived. The wreck was rediscovered in 1986.
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