Several ships have been named ''Auguste'':
* was a
full-rigged sailing ship that sank at Aspy Bay,
Cape Breton
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The island accounts for 18. ...
,
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in 1761 while carrying exiles from the fall of
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.
*''Auguste'', of 10 guns and 50 men, was a French
letter of marque that captured on 17 June 1800 as ''Auguste'' was sailing from Bordeaux to . She had been commissioned in February 1800.
* was an 18-gun privateer commissioned at Bordeaux that captured on 6 April 1811.
*''Auguste'', of
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast.
The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...
, was a privateer of two guns and 24 men that captured on 28 February 1809. She was a privateer barge of 47 tons ("of load"), commissioned in March 1808. Her first cruise, with two guns and 20 men under Feillet, was from March 1808 to no later than April 1808. She made another cruise in February 1809 under Huon, with 24 men and 2 guns, that ended in her capture by HMS ''Helena''.
[Demerliac (2004), N°2064, p. 268.]
* was a 14-gun privateer commissioned in
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast.
The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...
. She captured numerous British merchant vessels before the
Royal Navy
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forced her in January 1814 to run onshore and wreck.
See also
* – one of 12 French naval vessels by that name
* – British naval
fourth rate
In 1603 all English warships with a compliment of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'. In 1625/26 to establish pay rates for officers a six tier naval ship rating system was introduced.Winfield 2009 These small ships were divided i ...
wrecked on the island of
Anholt (Denmark)
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