HMS Auguste (1705)
{{short description|Ship of the line of the Royal Navy}}
{{other ships|French ship Auguste}}
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|Ship beam=36½ French feet |Ship draught=18 French feet |Ship hold depth=16 French feet |Ship sail plan=Full-rigged ship |Ship complement=400 (320 in peacetime), + 10 officers |Ship armament=*54 guns comprising:
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HMS Auguste was the French 54-gun Auguste built in Brest in 1704 that the British captured in 1705. In her brief French service she captured two British men-of-war. She was wrecked in 1716.
French service
Étienne Hubac designed Auguste as a privateer for René Duguay-Trouin. in whose service she was employed as part of a naval squadron of four vessels. Together with the 54-gun Jason (1704), she captured {{HMS|Coventry|1695|6}} in September 1704. Then, on 12 November, 30 miles south of the Isles of Scilly, together with Jason and the 26-gun frigate Valeur (1704), she captured the third rate {{HMS|Elizabeth|1679|2}}. In February 1705 Auguste and the 44-gun fourth-rate Thétis were escorting Gloutonne, Élephant, and Jean et Jacques (which were armed en flute), when the convoy ran into a squadron under Admiral George Byng off Cape Finisterre. Only Auguste escaped.{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=57}}
{{HMS|Chatham|1691|2}}, together with {{HMS|Medway|1693|2}} and {{HMS|Tryton|1702|2}}, captured Auguste on 8 August 1705 (Old Style Calendar) - 19 August (New Calendar).{{sfnp|Roche|2005|p=57}}
British service
Auguste was registered for Royal Navy service from 28 August 1705 and fitted out for service in the English Channel. Commissioned for active service by Captain Robert Bokenham, she proved her worth by capturing the French privateers La Marie-Madeleine on 13 September 1706, and L{{'}}Hirondelle on 30 September 1706.{{sfnp|Winfield |2007|p=117}}
Bokenham died in 1707 and Captain Thomas Scott replaced him. The next year, Auguste joined the fleet of Admiral George Byng, which was in need of reinforcement after the Scilly naval disaster of 1707. The fleet patrolled the Channel and the North Sea throughout 1708.{{sfnp|Winfield |2007|p=117}} In 1709, Lord Duffus replaced Scott. From 1710 to 1713, she was under the command of Captain Robert Thompson in the Dunkirk squadron (1710), the Mediterranean (1711), and the West Indies (1712).{{cite web|url=http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_v.pdf|archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802041628/http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/Warship_Histories_Vessels_v.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 August 2011|title=NMM, vessel ID 380379|work=Warship Histories, vol v|publisher=National Maritime Museum|access-date=30 July 2011}}
Loss
In 1716, while under the command of Captain Robert Johnson, Auguste was in the Baltic. She had sailed from Nore on 18 May with a squadron under Sir John Norris to join a combined English-Dutch-Danish-Russian fleet in a demonstration to Sweden that Britain and her allies would resist Swedish interference with trade.Clowes et al. (1897-1903), Vol. 3, pp.26-27.
In November she was returning to England from Copenhagen with a convoy. As the weather worsened, the convoy took shelter on the evening of 9 November at Læsø island. During the night Auguste{{'}}s cables broke and she sailed out to sea to avoid being driven on shore. On the night of 10 November a gale drove her ashore on the nearby island of Anholt.{{sfnp|Hepper|1994|p=30}} Captain Johnson, his officers, and at least 250 of his men were saved. Another 40 may have landed in Sweden.{{London Gazette|issue=5494|page=1|date=11 December 1716}} In all, most of her people were saved.
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References
- {{cite book |last=Clowes |first=W. Laird |display-authors=et al. |year=1897–1903 |title=The Royal Navy: A history from the earliest times to the present |location=Boston / London |publisher=Little, Brown and Co. / S. Low, Marston and Co.}}
- {{cite book |last1=Hepper |first1=David J. |year=1994 |title=British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859 |publisher=Jean Boudriot |location=Rotherfield |isbn=0-948864-30-3}}
- {{cite book|first=Jean-Michel|last=Roche|year=2005|title=Dictionnaire des bâtiments de la flotte de guerre française de Colbert à nos jours|isbn=978-2-9525917-0-6|oclc=165892922|publisher=Group Retozel-Maury Millau|volume=1}}
- {{cite book | last = Winfield| first = Rif|title = British Warships of the Age of Sail 1714–1792: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates | publisher = Seaforth| location=Barnsley, United Kingdom|year = 2007|isbn=9781844157006}}
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