[3] Atalante participated in the Croisière du Grand Hiver, an unsuccessful sortie by the French fleet at Brest on 24 December 1794.

[1] Recommissioned in December, this time under Commander Anselm Griffiths, she went on to have a particularly successful career against French privateers.

About three hours later, Atalante dropped off her master in her jolly boat to recapture the brig, and continued the pursuit without stopping.

The master, Edward Lewington, and crew of the prize were aboard Succès and they reported that they had been sailing from London to Belfast when the privateer had captured them the night before west of Dungeness.

[10] On 26 February 1801, she sent into Plymouth the Bon Aventura, which had been sailing from St Ullus to Limerick when the French privateer Grande Decide, of 18 guns, had captured her.

[12] On 10 August 1801, Atalante's cutter, manned by eight men, captured the 58-ton lugger Eveillé in Quiberon Bay.

[16] On 14 October 1802, he brought into Plymouth the 80-ton Admiral Pole, of Exeter, which Atalante caught after a long chase.

Admiral Pole had been captured some months earlier at Weymouth and then released after posting bond with the Board of Customs and Excise.

His success on anti-smuggling patrol had apparently resulted in his previous crew earning prize money the equivalent of their pay for the six-month period.

Masefield had captured eight smuggling vessels and seized 1,000 ankers of spirits, in addition to bale goods.

[19] On 14 March 1803, Atalante sailed from Plymouth to retrieve the sloop Galgo from Mount's Bay, where she had taken refuge, having been dismasted in a gale.

[21] On 13 May 1803, Nemesis and Atalante returned to Plymouth from a cruise that had them monitoring French naval movements off Brest.

That party had killed six of the 10 or 12 soldiers on the brig, thrown two over board, and driven the rest and the crew below decks.

The boarding party was unable to get the brig off the shore so they abandoned her without setting her on fire in consideration of the men below decks.

[27] That same day, i.e., 9 October, there came into Plymouth a large lugger with brandy, wine, and Castile soup that Atalante's boats had cut out near Brest.

[33] That same month Atalante captured the Noord Termans, Wagener, master, as she was sailing from St. Martin's to Bremen.

On 19 October 1806, Indefatigable, Hazard and Atalante captured the chasse marees Achille, Jenny and Marianne.

Later, Sir Samuel Hood testified in Parliament that Commander Keats had assured him that Atalante was seaworthy.

She had been cruising to watch enemy vessels in Rochefort when she hit the Grande Blanche rock at 10 pm.

The jolly boat, with the gunner and six men, headed out to sea where a ship from the British blockading squadron picked them up.

He had ignored Lieutenant Bowker's order not to take her into shallow water and had ignored the advice of the French pilot, M. Legall, who was on board in an advisory capacity.