Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Five vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Augusta, the first three after the city of Augusta, Georgia, and the fourth after Augusta, Maine. The first Augusta was a 14-gun brig in use from 1799 to 1801. The second Augusta was the civilian side-wheel steamer Augusta purchased by the Navy in 1861 for use in the American Civil War, and sold in 1868. (third Augusta was a yacht?) The fourth Augusta (CL/CA-31) was a cruiser in service from 1931 to 1946, serving in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II. The fifth Augusta (SSN-710) is a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine, commissioned in 1985 and on active service as of 2004. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.