Argo (1806 Liverpool ship)

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Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameArgo
BuilderFrance [1]
Launched1783 [1]
Acquired1806 by purchase of a prize
FateLost 1806
General characteristics
Tons burthen332 [1] (bm)
Complement38
Armament16 × 6-pounder guns [1]

Argo was built in France in 1783, possibly under another name. She was taken in prize circa 1806 and sailed as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. She first appeared in the Register of Shipping in 1806. [1]

YearMasterOwnerTradeSource
1806ThomsonMcDowellLiverpool–AfricaRS; damages repaired 1806

Captain William Thompson sailed Argo from Liverpool on 10 April 1806, bound for Bonny. [2] [3]

In September 1806 Lloyd's List reported that Argo, of Liverpool, Thompson, master, had been lost on the coast of Africa. [4] [5] She had been lost on the Windward Coast; Her crew was saved. [3]

In 1806, 33 British ships in the triangular trade were lost. Twenty-three of these were lost on the coast of Africa. [6] During the period 1793 to 1807, war, rather than maritime hazards or resistance by the captives, was the greatest cause of vessel losses among British slave vessels. [7]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 RS (1806), "A" supple. pages.
  2. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Argo voyage #80345.
  3. 1 2 "SHIP NEWS". Lancaster Gazetter (Lancaster, England), 4 October 1806, Volume 6, Issue 277.
  4. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List. No. 4085. 26 September 1806. hdl:2027/uc1.c2735022.
  5. Inikori (1996), p. 74.
  6. Inikori (1996), p. 62.
  7. Inikori (1996), p. 58.

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