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
The 80-gun Auguste (1779) 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
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.
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