HMS Augustus (or Augusta) was a Thames sailing barge that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1795 and used as a gun-vessel of two or three guns.
[3] On the morning of 7 July 1801 Augustus, which had been lying in the Cattewater, got under weigh for Cawsand Bay.
As she was turning into Plymouth Sound she missed her stays and ran aground east of two gun batteries under the Citadel.
[4] Next day dockyard vessels did succeed in pulling her off and in towing her to the Cattewater, but there she was declared a wreck.
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