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HMS Atalanta

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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Atalanta or HMS Atalante after the athlete in ancient Greek mythology.

Indian Marine

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  • INS Atalanta (1836) was a wooden paddle sloop of 6066094 tons (bm), 210HP, and five guns, launched by Wigrams & Green, Blackwall, on 14 May 1836 for the British East India Company's naval arm in India. However, she ended up spending some 20 years as a mail packet until she was broken in the 1850s.

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References

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  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.