Atalante (ship, 1868)
The Atalante was a wooden French Panzerkorvette of Alma class. The corvette was used both in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 and in the Tonkin campaign in 1883. It was named after the heroine Atalante of Greek mythology .
Technical specifications
- Type of ship: ironclad
- Builder: Arsenal Cherbourg
- Start of construction: June 1865
- Launched: April 9, 1868
- Commissioning: July 11, 1869
- Size: 3825 metric tons
- Length: 68.78 m
- Width: 14.2 m
- Draft: 6.56 m
- Drive: steam engine
- Power: 1640 hp
- Screws: 1
- Masts: 3
- Sails: Unknown, baroque rigging
- Armament: 6–19.4 cm guns , four 12.0 cm guns
- Armor: 100–150 mm
- Crew: 316
history
The Atalante was designed by Henri Dupuy de Lôme . After commissioning in 1869, the corvette remained in the reserve . After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, she served in the North Sea Squadron of Vice Admiral Martin Fourichon from late July to mid-September 1870 and was involved in the blockade of the German North Sea ports.
In 1872 the Atalante became the flagship of the Pacific Squadron , and in 1873 she was overtaken in a dock in Sydney . In 1874 she was transferred to the reserve again, but served as the flagship of the China squadron as early as 1875 . From 1878 to 1882 it was again in reserve.
In 1882 the corvette became part of the Cochinchina Division and took part in the Tonkin Campaign . From August 18 to 21, 1883, she was involved in the bombardment of the forts during the Battle of Thuan An . An Atalante landing party stormed the north fort. The ship was then part of the Far East Squadron ( Escadre d'Extrême-Orient ). On Sino-French War corvette participated directly. From 1885 she was in reserve in Saigon and was decommissioned in 1887. Unclear when, she was wrecked in the port due to her poor condition .
Sister ships
Alma , Armide , Jeanne d'Arc , Montcalm , Reine Blanche , Thétis .
literature
- The 1870 campaign in the North and Baltic Seas. From the French by René de Pont-Jest. With corrections and additions by a German naval officer. Along with a map of the Jade, Weser and Elbe estuaries , Bremen (JG Heyse) 1871. Digitized version of the Munich State Library
- Robert Gardiner: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 , Greenwich (Conways's) 1979.
- Clas Broder Hansen: Germany will become a sea power. The construction of the Imperial Navy 1867–1880 , Graefelfing before Munich 1991. ISBN 3-924896-23-2
- Geoffrey Wawro : The Franco-Prussian War. The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 , Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2003. ISBN 0-521-58436-1
- Hans Otto Steinmetz: In the shadow of the army and big politics. A consideration of the deployment of the Prussian-German Navy in the war of 1870/71 , in: Marine-Rundschau , Volume 70, year 1973, pp. 212-229.
- Hans-Justus Kreker: The French Navy in the War of 1870/71 , in: Marine-Rundschau , Volume 70, year 1973, pp. 276–286,