HMS Atalante (1797)

Drawing of Atalante showing the inboard profile with stern quarter decoration, and stern board outline with decoration detail, 1798
History
France
Name	Atalante
Builder	Bayonne
Laid down	1793
Launched	January 1794
Completed	By April 1794
Captured	10 January 1797, by the Royal Navy
Great Britain
Name	HMS Atalante
Acquired	10 January 1797
Commissioned	July 1798
Fate	Wrecked on 12 February 1807
General characteristics [1][2]
Class and type	16-gun brig-sloop
Displacement	450 tons (French)
Tons burthen	309 80⁄94 (bm)
Length	99 ft (30.2 m) (overall) 78 ft 8 in (24.0 m) (keel)
Beam	27 ft 8 in (8.4 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 2+1⁄4 in (3.7 m)
Propulsion	Sails
Complement	French service=*120 When captured: 112 British service: 90
Armament	As fitted:16 × 6-pounder guns British service: 14 × 24-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder bow chasers

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.