Several vessels have been named ''Argo'' for the ship
Argo
In Greek mythology the ''Argo'' (; in Greek: ) was a ship built with the help of the gods that Jason and the Argonauts sailed from Iolcos to Colchis to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The ship has gone on to be used as a motif in a variety of sour ...
of Greek mythology:
* was an American
schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
that was wrecked in
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
during January 1800.
* was launched in 1802 in France, possibly under another name, and captured c.1804. She became a whaler in the British Southern Whale Fishery and made two complete whale hunting voyages. A US Navy frigate captured her on her third voyage.
* was built in 1806 at
Chittagong
Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...
, present-day
Bangladesh. She was registered in
Calcutta to Payne & Tyrce. She disappeared in 1814 off the coast of
Tasmania after having been "run away with" by
convicts.
* was built in France in 1783 and was taken in prize circa 1806. She sailed as a
slave ship and was lost on the coast of Africa before she had acquired any slaves.
* was launched at Whitby as a
West Indiaman. She made one voyage to India under a license from the British
East India Company (EIC). Thereafter she traded between Liverpool and
Miramichi, New Brunswick. She was last listed in 1824 and may have foundered in June 1824.
* was an iron screw steamer. She was the first screw steamship to
circumnavigate the earth.
* is a two-masted
Marconi rigged schooner
A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...
. She was built in 2006 in
Samut Prakan,
Thailand at Marsun Shipyards. She is owned and operated by
Seamester Study Abroad Programs as one of two
sail training vessels the company operates.
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