French ship Atalante explained

Several ships of the French Navy 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 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.
• owned by the IFREMER research institute, carrying the Victor 6000 undersea robot.