The Seine class was a class of four 42-gun frigates of the French Navy, designed in 1793 by Pierre-Alexandre Forfait. A fifth vessel, Furieuse, was originally ordered at Cherbourg in February 1794 to Forfait's design, but was instead completed to the design of the Seine class.

The ship builder Charles-Henri Le Tellier produced a variant of the Forfait design after the latter went to Venice in 1797. Two further vessels, originally ordered as the final pair to the Seine design and begun to that design in July 1797, were completed to the variant design as the Valeureuse class, which were about longer than earlier Seine-class vessels.

The vessels were originally designed to carry a main armament of 24-pounder guns, but in the event all were completed at Le Havre with 18-pounders.

Seine class Seine Builder: Le Havre Begun: May 1793 Launched: 19 December 1793 Completed: March 1794 Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 30 June 1798, becoming HMS Seine.

Révolutionnaire Builder: Le Havre Begun: October 1793 Launched: 28 May 1794 Completed: July 1794 Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 21 October 1794, becoming HMS Revolutionnaire.

Spartiate Builder: Le Havre Begun: May 1794 Launched: late November 1794 Completed: December 1794 Fate: Renamed La Pensée May 1795. Converted to a breakwater in November 1804, deleted 1832.

Indienne Builder: Le Havre Begun: December 1794 Launched: 2 September 1796 Completed: October 1797 Fate: Burnt to avoid capture by the Royal Navy in April 1809. Furieuse Builder: Cherbourg Begun: March 1795 Launched: 22 September 1797 Completed: May 1798 Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 6 July 1809, becoming HMS Furieuse.

Valeureuse class ValeureuseWinfield and Roberts (2015), p.142. Builder: Le Havre Begun: July 1797 Launched: 29 July 1798 Completed: March 1800 Fate: Sold in September 1806 at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania for breaking up following condemnation as irreparable at Philadelphia. Infatigable Builder: Le Havre Begun: July 1797 Launched: 6 April 1799 Completed: March 1800 Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy on 24 September 1806, becoming HMS Immortalité; never commissioned and sold in January 1811 at Plymouth for breaking up.

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