Category:Auguste (ship, 1863)

English: The iron barque Auguste was built in 1863 as the full-rigger Victoria Cross by Pile, Spence & Co. (Yard No: 52) at Hartlepool for Coupland Bros., Liverpool. Registered at 669 tons gross & net, she measured 168 ft (51.2 m) in length with a 28 ft (853.4 cm) beam and originally had a full ship-rig before being reduced to a barque to save on crewing costs. After service with several owners, she disappears from record in the mid-1880s. 1889 sold to J.H.Nicolai, Brake, Germany and renamed Auguste. Wrecked c. 1900 at Atherfield Lodge, Isle of Wight.^[1][2]