Several ships of the
French Navy
The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in t ...
have borne the name ''Atalante'':
* , a 40-gun ship, broken up in 1733.
* , a 32-gun ship, sunk in 1760.
* , was a French 32-gun frigate launched in 1768 captured in 1794. The Royal Navy took her into service as HMS ''Espion''. She became a floating battery in 1798, then a troop transport in 1799; she was wrecked in 1799 on the
Goodwin Sands.
* , captured in 1797 and taken into service as . She was wrecked in 1807.
* , a 44-gun frigate, wrecked in 1805.
* , a frigate.
* (1869), an wooden-hulled armored
corvette
A corvette is a small warship. It is traditionally the smallest class of vessel considered to be a proper (or " rated") warship. The warship class above the corvette is that of the frigate, while the class below was historically that of the slo ...
condemned in 1887. She sank at Saigon shortly afterwards.
* (1915), an launched in 1915 and struck in 1933.
* (1930), an launched in 1930 and struck in 1946.
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French Navy ship names