French frigate Atalante (1802)

The Atalante was a 44-gun Virginie class frigate of the French Navy.

Launched in 1802, she cruised in the Indian Ocean under capitaine de frégate Gaudin, in the squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois. Atalante cruised with Belle Poule, taking numerous prizes between June and 1804 and early 1805, notably the East Indiaman Athias and the Heroism. The ship was also engaged at the Battle of Vizagapatam in September 1804.

On 3 November 1805, as she was moored near the Cape of Good Hope under Captain Gaudin-Beauchêne, she was washed ashore by a gust of wind and wrecked. She was later refloated, but found irreparable; she was written off as a total loss.