French ship Séduisant (1783)
- French ship Séduisant (1783)
The "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 Bataille du 13 prairial an 2.
On 30 May 1795, she was renamed back to "Séduisant". She sank accidentally on 16 December 1795 while leaving Brest for the Expédition d'Irlande. Out of 600 crew and 610 soldiers, only 60 survived.
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