The Auguste Never Returns to France (1761)

The Auguste was considered a prison ship, rented by the British governor of Quebec to carry the defeated military personnel of the French out of Quebec after the surrender of Montreal. Since the surrender agreement had detailed instructions for the removal of these people, and many of them were of the upper-class of French Canadian society, though a prison ship the people on board carried with them a good deal of money and luxuries. Unfortunately it was all to end up at the bottom of Aspy Bay, Nova Scotia, along with most of the people on board. Ship Name: Auguste Built In: France Ship Nationality: British (captured from the French) Tonnage: 245 Reason for Wreck: Ran ashore in a storm Year Wrecked: 1761 Type of ship: Wooden Sailing Vessel, Merchant Ship Lives Lost: Approximately 113 Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/18th-century-ship-believed-found-off-coast-of-cape-breton-1.487043 https://sha.org/assets/documents/The%20Wreck%20of%20the%20Auguste.pdf https://www.proquest.com/openview/f07942a6a6d2cd1b7329b5e543df53fa/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/looters-likely-scouring-sunken-treasures-off-nova-scotia-experts-warn-1.4371713?cache=vpigvemdpalu%3FclipId%3D104062 https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Quebec-North-America-1759 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48758/48758-0.txt http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/la_corne_luc_de_4E.html https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/committees/61_2_LACSubmissions/20101116/20101116-081-003.pdf https://www.angelfire.com/art/peina/Newsletters/Jun01.html