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
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* , 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 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