HMS Hawk (1803)

French service: 128
British service: 121

History
France
Name	Atalante
Builder	Bordeaux
Launched	1802
Commissioned	June 1803
Captured	July 1803
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Hawk
Acquired	July 1803 by capture
Fate	Disappeared, presumed foundered December 1804
General characteristics
Type	Ship or sloop-of-war
Displacement	220 tonnes (French)
Tons burthen	32042⁄94 (bm),
Length	Overall: 90 ft 11 in (27.7 m); Keel: 76 ft 11+1⁄2 in (23.5 m);
Beam	27 ft 11+3⁄4 in (8.5 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 2 in (2.5 m)
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	French service: 128; British service: 121;
Armament	French service: 14 × 6-pounder guns; British service: 16 × 24-pounder carronades + 2 × 9-pounder chase guns;

HMS Hawk was an 18-gun sloop-of-war, previously the French privateer Atalante, that HMS Plantagenet captured in 1803. The Royal Navy took Atalante into service as HMS Hawk; she foundered in 1804.

History

France
Name	Atalante
Builder	Bordeaux
Launched	1802
Commissioned	June 1803
Captured	July 1803
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Hawk
Acquired	July 1803 by capture
Fate	Disappeared, presumed foundered December 1804
General characteristics
Type	Ship or sloop-of-war
Displacement	220 tonnes (French)
Tons burthen	32042⁄94 (bm),
Length	Overall: 90 ft 11 in (27.7 m) Keel: 76 ft 11+1⁄2 in (23.5 m)
Beam	27 ft 11+3⁄4 in (8.5 m)
Depth of hold	8 ft 2 in (2.5 m)
Sail plan	Brig
Complement	French service: 128 British service: 121
Armament	French service: 14 × 6-pounder guns British service: 16 × 24-pounder carronades + 2 × 9-pounder chase guns