HMS Argo (1758)
| History | |
|---|---|
 Great Britain | |
| Name: | HMS Argo |
| Ordered: | 19 September 1757 |
| Builder: | Henry Bird, Rotherhithe |
| Laid down: | 22 September 1757 |
| Launched: | 20 July 1758 |
| Completed: | 29 January 1759 at Deptford Dockyard |
| Commissioned: | October 1758 |
| Fate: | Broken up at Portsmouth November 1776 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 601 59⁄94 bm |
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| Beam: | 33 ft 11.5 in (10.351 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 200 |
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HMS Argo was a 28-gun sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was one of the Coventry class, designed by Sir Thomas Slade as a development of based on the Lyme, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns."
Argo was commissioned into the Royal Navy in October 1758, during Britain's Seven Years' War with France and Spain. After receiving stores, guns and crew she was out to sea in late January 1759 under the command of Captain John Tinker, and was assigned to the British squadron blockading the French-held port of Dunkirk. Tinker departed the vessel in July 1759 and was replaced by a more junior officer, Commander Walter Griffith.[1]
She took part in the expedition against Manila. In a two-hour action on 31 October 1762, the Argo and Edgar Class fourth-rate 60-gun HMS Panther captured the Santisima Trinidad, a Spanish galleon loaded with cargo valued at $1.5 million.[2]
References
Bibliography
- Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
- Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.