Séduisant was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

, lead ship of her class

Séduisant class ship of the line

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She was renamed Pelletier on 30 September 1793, in honour of Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau

Louis Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau

Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau was a French politician.-Career:...

. Under Savary, she was one of the last ships of the line at the Glorious First of June

Glorious First of June

The Glorious First of June [Note A] of 1794 was the first and largest fleet action of the naval conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars...

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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

Expédition d'Irlande

The Expédition d'Irlande was an unsuccessful attempt by the First French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars to assist the outlawed Society of United Irishmen, a popular rebel Irish republican group, in their planned rebellion against British rule...

. Out of 600 crew and 610 soldiers, only 60 survived. The wreck was rediscovered in 1986.