 Atalante in the Fitzroy Dock, Sydney Harbour, 1873
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| History | |
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 France | |
| Name | Atalante |
| Builder | Cherbourg |
| Laid down | June 1865 |
| Launched | 9 April 1868 |
| Commissioned | 1869 |
| Fate | Condemned 1887; foundered afterwards and sank |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Alma-class ironclad |
| Displacement | 3,825 t (3,765 long tons) |
| Length | 68.78 m (225 ft 8 in) |
| Beam | 14.2 m (46 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 6.56 m (21 ft 6 in) (mean) |
| Installed power | |
| Propulsion | 1 shaft, 1 steam engine |
| Sail plan | Barque-rig |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Range | 1,460 nmi (2,700 km; 1,680 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 316 |
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| Armor | |
The French ironclad Atalante was a wooden-hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the mid-1860s. She played a minor role in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, bombarded Vietnamese forts during the Battle of Thuận An in 1884 and participated in the Sino-French War of 1884–1885. Atalante was reduced to reserve in Saigon, French Indochina, in 1885 and sank there two years later after having been condemned.