:Argo (1806 Liverpool ship)

{{Short description|British slave ship}}

{{other ships|Argo (ship)}}

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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.[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021233542?urlappend=%3Bseq=68 RS (1806), "A" supple. pages.]

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Year ! Master ! Owner ! Trade ! Source
1806 | Thomson | McDowell | Liverpool–Africa | RS; damages repaired 1806

Captain William Thompson sailed Argo from Liverpool on 10 April 1806, bound for Bonny.[https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/80345/variables Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database – Argo voyage #80345.]

In September 1806 Lloyd's List reported that Argo, of Liverpool, Thompson, master, had been lost on the coast of Africa.{{cite news|title=The Marine List |work=Lloyd's List |issue=4085 |date=26 September 1806|hdl=2027/uc1.c2735022?urlappend=%3Bseq=371}}{{sfnp|Inikori|1996|p=74}} She had been lost on the Windward Coast; her crew was saved."SHIP NEWS". Lancaster Gazetter (Lancaster, England), 4 October 1806, Volume 6, Issue 277.

In 1806, 33 British ships in the triangular trade were lost. Twenty-three of these were lost on the coast of Africa.{{sfnp|Inikori|1996|p=62}} 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.{{sfnp|Inikori|1996|p=58}}