French ship Auguste explained
Twelve vessels of the French Navy have borne the name Auguste ("August", or Augustus):
Ships
- , a six-gun fire ship.[1]
- , a 56-gun ship of the line.
- (1708), a 56-gun ship of the line.
- , a 50-gun ship of the line.
- , an 80-gun ship of the line.[1]
- , 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]
- , a brig.[1]
- , a 6-gun brig.[1]
- , a gunboat.[1]
- , an 80-gun ship of the line.[1]
- Auguste was a French gunboat of two guns and 37 men that captured on 24 August 1814.
See also
- (1939), an armed trawler.[3]
- (1915), an armed trawler.
- (1915), a hired ship.
- (1915), a hired ship.
References
- Book: Roche, Jean-Michel. 2005. Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 978-2-9525917-0-6. 165892922. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. 1. 372–373.
- Book: Roche, Jean-Michel. 2005. Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours. 978-2-9525917-0-6. 165892922. Group Retozel-Maury Millau. 2. 250.
- Book: Winfield. Rif. Roberts. Stephen S.. 2015. French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786–1861: Design Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. 978-1-84832-204-2.
Notes and References
- Roche, vol.1, pp. 56-57
- Winfield and Roberts (2015), p.296.
- Roche, vol.2, p.57
