Atalante was a 40-gun Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy. Launched in 1802, she began cruising in the Indian Ocean in 1803 under Frigate Captain Carmille-Charles-Alexis Gaudin Beauchene in a sq
Atalante at the Battle of Visakhapatnam
Atalante can be seen in this printed key for a view of the Battle of Pulau Aur, a painting by Francis Sartorius, the younger after a drawing by an officer on board the Henry Addington
Linois's expedition to the Indian Ocean was a commerce raiding operation launched by the French Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Counter-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois was ordered to the
French frigate Atalante (1802)
…Ocean in 1803 under Frigate Captain Carmille-Charles-Alexis Gaudin Beauchene in a squadron led by Counter-admiral Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois, whose mission was to attack British commercial targets. Linois' squadron consisted of the 74-gun ship of the line Marengo and the frigates Atalante, Belle Poule and…
The Battle of Pulo Aura, a major engagement of the expedition
The Battle of Pulo Aura, a major failure of the expedition
Contemporary engraving of the action of 13 March 1806