Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ‘Augusta’ (1736), a 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line. The name ‘Augusta’ appears on the starboard broadside.

The ‘Augusta’ was launched from Deptford dockyard in July 1736. It was the fourth of an eventual seventeen 60-gun ships to be built under the 1733 Establishment. These ships were both larger (at 144 feet by 40 feet) and heavier (at 1060 tons burden) than the 60s of the 1719 Establishment. The gun arrangement remained at 24 24-pound guns on the gun deck, twenty-six 9-pounders on the upper deck, eight 6-pounders on the quarterdeck and two 6-pounders on the forecastle. Four hundred men would have served on a ship of this type.

Most of the ‘Augusta’s’ service was in European waters. It was part of Balchen’s fleet in 1744, and with Anson off Finisterre in 1747. At the beginning of the Seven Years War in 1756, it was sent to the Leewards Islands station to help secure the West Indies, where it remained until 1759.