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 & type:	Coventry-class sixth-rate frigate
Tons burthen:	601 ^59⁄94 bm
Length:	118 ft 5.75 in (36.1 m) (gundeck) 98 ft 0 in (29.9 m) (keel)
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
Armament:	Upper deck: 24 × 9-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 4 × 3-pounder guns 12 × ^1⁄2-pounder swivels

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."

She served during the Seven Years' War, at first blockading Dunkirk, before sailing for the far east.

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.^[1]

References

1. Tracy, Nicholas (1995). Manila Ransomed. University of Exeter Press. p. 75-76. ISBN 0859894266.

• Robert Gardiner, The First Frigates, Conway Maritime Press, London 1992. ISBN 0-85177-601-9.
• David Lyon, The Sailing Navy List, Conway Maritime Press, London 1993. ISBN 0-85177-617-5.
• Rif Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1714 to 1792, Seaforth Publishing, London 2007. ISBN 978-1-84415-700-6.
• Argo at Ships of the Old Navy website