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    HMS Argo was a 44-gun fifth-rate Roebuck-class ship of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1781 from Howdon Dock. The French captured her in 1783, but...
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  • up by 1776. HMS Argo (1780) was a schooner purchased in 1780 and sold in 1783. HMS Argo (1781) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1781. In 1783, she...
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    transport 1796, hulked 1799 HMS Argo 1781 – troopship 1791, sold 1816 HMS Diomede 1781 – lost 1795 HMS Guardian 1784 – sold 1791 HMS Mediator 1782 – storeship...
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    Mercury. The Royal Navy took both Argo and Mercury into service, the Argo becoming Janus while Mercury became HMS Hermes. In 1800, under Capt. John Pengelly...
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  • renamed HMS Firebrand in 1778 and was burnt off Falmouth in 1781. HMS Porpoise (1780) was a 14-gun storeship purchased in 1780 and sold in 1783. HMS Porpoise (1798)...
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  • Nelson sailed as a convoy escort to Denmark with the Enterprize and Argo on 31 October 1781. While returning to Britain, the convoy ran into heavy weather...
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    serving aboard the 38-gun HMS Artois under Captain John MacBride. He followed MacBride to a succession of ships in the period 1781 to 1789 and saw action...
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  • Amphitrite. On 17 February 1781, they captured the 44-gun HMS Argo off Tortola. The 74-gun HMS Invincible recaptured Argo shortly afterwards. Mortemart...
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    when HMS Phoenix, of the squadron, captured the Dutch frigate Argo and the brig Mercury. The Royal Navy took both Argo and Mercury into service: Argo became...
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    HMS Dolphin was a 44-gun fifth rate ship of the Royal Navy launched in 1781. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she carried her armament on two decks and had...
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  • property of the officers of HMS Rainbow. Arbuthnot became the prize of the American ships Argo and Fair American in April 1780. Argo was a Pennsylvanian privateer...
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  • convoy, the 74-gun ships HMS Fortitude under Taylor, and HMS Bedford under Captain Augustus Montgomery, the 44-gun HMS Argo under Captain Richard Randall...
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  • 16-gun Mercury. The Royal Navy took Argo and Mercury into service, Argo became HMS Janus and Mercury became HMS Hermes. After this success Halsted was...
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    while there were also three frigates – HMS Argo (28), HMS Seahorse (20) and HMS Seaford (20) – and the storeship HMS Southsea Castle. They carried a force...
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    Leviathan and Centaur, the forty-fours, Argo and Dolphin, Aurora, captained by Thomas Gordon Caulfield, the 20-gun, HMS Cormorant, the 16-gun, Peterel, three...
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    broken up. This problem was demonstrated in a sister ship of Actaeon, HMS Argo, which two French frigates captured in 1783 because the weather was so...
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    May 1781, and two days later took the schooner Fanny. Subsequently serving alongside the 24-gun frigate HMS Charlestown and 24-gun post-ship HMS Amphitrite...
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    to Britain. For this operation, the Admiralty placed the frigates HMS Argo and HMS Enterprise under his command. Nelson successfully organised the convoy...
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    September 1836. This problem was demonstrated in a sister ship of Experiment, HMS Argo, which two French frigates captured in 1783 because the weather was so...
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    The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle that took place on 5 August 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, contemporaneously related to the American...
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    waterline. This problem was demonstrated in a sister ship of Endymion, HMS Argo, which two French frigates captured in 1783 because the weather was so...
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    HMS Serapis was a fifth-rate ship of the Roebuck class designed by Sir Thomas Slade for use in the shallow coastal waters around North America. She was...
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    HMS America was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by John Williams and built by Adam Hayes at Deptford Dockyard and was...
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    outdistanced pursuit, but Argo was slower and came under heavy but distant fire from Reunion and Isis, replying in kind. Argo was subsequently found to...
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    HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She was built...
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    fulfilled later, with the acquisition of the galley Pigot and the sloop Argo, which were commanded by Continental Army Lieutenant Colonel Silas Talbot...
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    this action, and was subsequently given command of HMS Lowestoffe. By 1795 he was in command of HMS Courageux, and took part with her in the Battle of...
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    Leander left Port of Spain on 24 July, together with HMS Express, HMS Attentive, HMS Prevost, and HMS Lilly, carrying General Miranda and some 220 officers...
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    Manila. On 31 October 1761 Panther and the Coventry-class 24-gun sixth-rate Argo captured the Spanish galleon Spanish ship Santísima Trinidad in a two-hour...
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    The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. "HMS Blenheim (+1807)". Wreck Site. Retrieved 12 October 2013. "The Loss of the...
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