French ironclad Atalante

Atalante in the Fitzroy Dock, Sydney Harbour, 1873
History
France
Name	Atalante
Builder	Cherbourg
Laid down	June 1865
Launched	9 April 1868
Commissioned	1869
Fate	Condemned 1887; foundered afterwards and sank
General characteristics
Class and type	Alma-class ironclad
Displacement	3,825 t (3,765 long tons)
Length	68.78 m (225 ft 8 in)
Beam	14.2 m (46 ft 7 in)
Draft	6.56 m (21 ft 6 in) (mean)
Installed power	4 boilers 1,640 ihp (1,220 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft, 1 steam engine
Sail plan	Barque-rig
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Range	1,460 nmi (2,700 km; 1,680 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement	316
Armament	6 × single 194 mm (7.6 in) Mle 1864 guns 4 × single 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
Armor	Belt: 150 mm (5.9 in) Battery: 120 mm (4.7 in) Barbettes: 100 mm (3.9 in) Bulkheads: 120 mm (4.7 in)

The French ironclad Atalante was a wooden-hulled armored corvette built for the French Navy in the mid-1860s. She played a minor role in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, bombarded Vietnamese forts during the Battle of Thuận An in 1884 and participated in the Sino-French War of 1884–1885. Atalante was reduced to reserve in Saigon, French Indochina, in 1885 and sank there two years later after having been condemned.