Archaeological remains associated with the loss of this vessel are not confirmed as present at this location, but may be in the vicinity.
Event and Historical Information:
The AUGUSTA was a wooden pilot cutter built in 1887 by Griffith Morton at Cardiff. Technical and configuration specifications are given as 12.66gt/rt; 36.7ft length x 11.8ft breadth x 5.9ft depth; 1 mast, 1 deck, cutter rigged, elliptical stern, carvel built, wooden framework; official number 89215. The cutter was placed on the Port of Cardiff Shipping Register as a new vessel (7 in 1887) by John Howard Hancock of 37 Westbourne Place, Cardiff, Bristol Channel pilot. John Hancock obtained a mortgage on his shares in the vessel from John McConnochie and John Amice le Boulanger of Cardiff, who funded several pilots to obtain their workboats in association with the Cardiff Pilotage Board. When John Amice le Boulanger died on 28 March 1889 the mortgaged passed to his widow and then sold to John Heron Wilson, shipowner, Ralph Pomeroy, Dockmaster, and Valentine Trayes, timber merchant, on 6 June 1890. These three appears to have taken over the provision of mortgages for pilot boats from the former partnership. The vessel's entry on the register was closed with the annotation 'Wrecked on Cardiff West Mud March 1895. Vessel abandoned and became a total wreck.'
Sources include:
Port of Cardiff Shipping Register 1885-1895, Glamorgan Archives, folio 19
