Frigate Training ship Atalanta 1885 Tie

Édouard Adam The Atalanta running under reduced sail in a gale 1885 The Atalanta was a training ship that disappeared with its entire crew in 1880. The Atalanta set sail from the Royal Naval Dockyard in Bermuda for Falmouth, England on January 31, 1880. It's presumed that the Atalanta sank in a powerful storm that crossed its route a couple of weeks after it sailed. The Atalanta was a 26-gun frigate that was launched in 1844 as the HMS Juno. It was renamed the HMS Mariner in January 1878 and then the HMS Atalanta two weeks later.