HMS Atalante (1797)
| History | |
|---|---|
 France
|
|
| Name: | Atalante |
| Builder: | Bayonne |
| Laid down: | 1793 |
| Launched: | January 1794 |
| Completed: | By April 1794 |
| Captured: | 10 January 1797, by the Royal Navy |
 UK
|
|
| Name: | HMS Atalante |
| Acquired: | 10 January 1797 |
| Fate: | Wrecked on 12 February 1807 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | 16-gun brig-sloop |
| Displacement: | 450 tons (French) |
| Tons burthen: | 309 80⁄94 (bm) |
| Length: |
|
| Beam: | 27 ft 8 in (8.4 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 12 ft 2 1⁄4 in (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Complement: |
|
| Armament: |
|
HMS Atalante was a 16-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was formerly the French Atalante, captured in 1797. She served with the British during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was wrecked in 1807.
Atalante was a brig built at Bayonne between 1793 and 1794 to a design by Raymond-Antoine Haran. She was launched in January 1794 as the only ship built to her design.
Between 28 January 1794 and 9 October, Atalante was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Soustra. She sailed from Bayonne to Brest, before cruising in the vicinity of the Azores and then returning to Brest.
Atalante participated in the Croisière du Grand Hiver, an unsuccessful sortie by the French fleet at Brest on 24 December 1794. She then returned to Bayonne, and later Brest.
By 13 October 1795 she was at Concarneau and under the command of enseigne de vaisseau Dordelin.
HMS Phoebe captured Atalante on 10 January 1797 off the Scilly Isles. At capture she was under the command of now lieutenant de vaisseaux Dordelin, and had a crew of 112 men. Her captors reported that she was a three-year-old brig with a coppered hull and an 80-foot keel. The British took her back to Portsmouth. She was registered there before being sent on to Plymouth, where the Navy had her fitted out between June and September 1798.
Atalante was commissioned under Commander Digby Dent in July 1798, but was paid off in October that year. Recommissioned in December, this time under Commander Anselm Griffiths, she went on to have a particularly successful career against French privateers.
...
Wikipedia