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Argo is a two-masted staysail schooner that measures 112 feet (34 m) overall and accommodates twenty six students and seven professional crew on ocean voyages. [4] Sailing under the Seamester flag, Argo circumnavigates on 90-day college semester-based programs and shorter 21-day and 60-day programs during the northern hemisphere summer.
Argo (1807 ship) 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. Argo (1853 ship) was an iron screw steamer.
In Greek mythology, the Argo (/ ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ / AR-goh; Ancient Greek: Ἀργώ, romanized: Argṓ) was the ship of Jason and the Argonauts. The ship was built with divine aid, and some ancient sources describe her as the first ship to sail the seas. The Argo carried the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece from Iolcos to Colchis.
Argo was built by C.J. Mare and Company of Leamouth, London for the General Screw Steam Shipping Company and launched in 1853. She was a three-masted ship with a clipper bow and a single funnel. [citation needed]
The Bastion system uses the P-800 Oniks/Yakhont supersonic anti-ship missile, primarily used to attack targets on land and sea, has an attack range of 300 km, and can be used to protect a coastline of over 600 km. [100] During a 2014 visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng to India, the Indian government under Prime Minister ...
The size of Argo ' s crew suggests that she may have made a cruise as a privateer. On the one hand there is no corroborating SAD data from Lloyd's List. On the other, Lloyd's List reported on 29 March 1808 that the "Argo privateer" had sent into Plymouth Concord, from New Orleans. [7] There is no other contemporary Argo with a letter of marque. [1]
Ngô Văn Quyền (HQ-718) was still active and in good condition when South Vietnam fell in 1975, she was taken into the Vietnam People's Navy and served for many more years. A few other Point -class ships reportedly participated in a final defense of Saigon, firing at North Vietnamese troops from the Saigon River in April 1975.
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."