Several vessels have been named ''Atalanta'' after the athlete

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in ancient

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. * was launched in Holland, perhaps under another name. She was captured in 1798, and thereafter traded generally. Between 1801 and 1804 she made two voyages as a

slave ship Slave ships were large cargo ships specially built or converted from the 17th to the 19th century for transporting Slavery, slaves. Such ships were also known as "Guineamen" because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea ( ...

in the

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in enslaved people, and may have been temporarily captured during the second. Between 1808 and 1814 she made two voyages as a

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in Australian and New Zealand waters. She was last listed in 1833. * was built in Bermuda in 1799. She sailed to London and then between 1800 and 1802 she made two complete voyages as a

. New owners sailed her as a

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. She suffered a minor maritime incident in 1803. A French privateer captured her in 1804. * was launched at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1811. She initially sailed as a government transport, sailing to the Indian Ocean. She also captured an American vessel after the outbreak of war with the United States. She then became a

, and later traded with Sierra Leone and Madeira. She made one voyage to

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, sailing under a licence from the British

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...

(EIC). She was broken up circa 1831. * * was a passenger vessel built for the

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in 1907.

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