HMS Argo (1758)

	Argo was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured)
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 HMS Lyme, "with such alterations as may tend to the better stowing of men and carrying for guns."

History
Argo was built to the same design as HMS Carysfort, (pictured)
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