French ship Auguste

Twelve vessels of the French Navy have borne the name Auguste ("August", or Augustus):

Ships

• Auguste (1670), a six-gun fire ship. ^[1]
• Auguste (1704), a 56-gun ship of the line. ^[1]
• Auguste (1708) (1708), a 56-gun ship of the line. ^[1]
• Auguste (1741), a 50-gun ship of the line. ^[1]
• Auguste (1778), an 80-gun ship of the line. ^[1]
• Auguste (1783), a 24-gun corvette. ^[1]
• Auguste was a 4-gun brigantine commissioned in the Mediterranean in 1793 or 1794 that the British Royal Navy captured at Calvi on 10 August 1794. ^{[2] [3]}
• Auguste (1800), a brig. ^[1]
• Auguste (1803), a 6-gun brig. ^[1]
• Auguste (1807), a gunboat. ^[1]
• Auguste (1811), an 80-gun ship of the line. ^[1]
• Auguste was a French gunboat of two guns and 37 men that HMS Weazel captured on 24 August 1814. ^[4]

Ships of the French Navy named Auguste

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  The 80-gun Auguste (1778) at the Battle of the Chesapeake.

See also

• French ship Augusta
• Auguste (ship)
• HMS Augusta
• French ship Auguste Denise (1939), an armed trawler. ^[5]
• French ship Auguste Leblond (1915), an armed trawler. ^[5]
• French ship Auguste Normand (1915), a hired ship. ^[5]
• French ship Augustine (1915), a hired ship. ^[5]

Citations

1. Roche, vol.1, pp. 56-57
2. "No. 13698". The London Gazette . 2 September 1794. p. 886.
3. Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.296.
4. "No. 16813". The London Gazette . 23 November 1813. p. 2340.
5. Roche, vol.2, p.57

References

• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 1. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. pp. 372–373. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.
• Roche, Jean-Michel (2005). Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. Vol. 2. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. p. 250. ISBN   978-2-9525917-0-6. OCLC   165892922.
• Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2015). French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN   978-1-84832-204-2.