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]
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.[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]
Inikori, Joseph (1996). "Measuring the unmeasured hazards of the Atlantic slave trade: Documents relating to the British trade". Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer. 83 (312): 53–92.
