HMS ''Atalanta'' was a 14-gun ''Swan'' class

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of the

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launched on 12 August 1775. She served during the

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. On 28 May 1781, ''Atalanta'' was captured by the privateer ''Alliance'', in which 24 of her crew were killed or wounded. She was recaptured three days later. In May 1782, under the command of Brett, she destroyed an American privateer (6 guns, 25 men), under then command of Ayret, near

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. Privateers from Cumberland (including Samuel Rogers) were on board. The privateers escaped to the woods leaving their provisions, which Captain Brett took to Cumberland. She also served in the

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, and was then renamed HMS ''Helena'' in March 1797 before being sold for disposal in 1802.A naval history of the American Revolution
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References

* * Winfield, Rif, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates''. Seaforth Publishing, 2007. .

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