&sq=&lang=&file=File:Carysfort_cropped.jpg) Argo was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured)
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| History | |
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| 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 HMS Lyme, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns."