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Argo (1800 ship) - Wikipedia

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United States
Name	Argo
Owner	Robert Berry
Fate	Wrecked January 1800
General characteristics
Type	Schooner
Propulsion	Sail

Argo was an American schooner that was wrecked in Fiji during January 1800. Her owner was Robert Berry.^[1]

Argo's sailing career was not a smooth one. A contemporary account of her 1798 arrival in Port Jackson (Sydney, Australia) said:

The Argo, an American schooner, arrived from the Isle of France, having on board a cargo of salt provisions, French brandy, and other articles on speculation; which, as usual in this country, found a ready sale, much more to the advantage of the owners than the colonists. As this ship came from the Mauritius, the Governor entertained some jealousy, certainly founded on probability; and, as it was not any ways impossible, that, under neutral colours, a spy might be concealed, he thought it requisite to put the battery on Point Maskelyne, into a more secure state, and to construct two redoubts in proper and convenient situations for offensive and defensive warfare, should it prove requisite.^[2]

In January 1800, Argo was on her way from China to Sydney when she was wrecked on what thereafter was known as Argo Reef, southeast of Fiji. Her crew reached Tongatapu where all but two were killed by natives. In 1802, the two survivors were rescued.^[3]

An alternative account of the capture of the crew, told from the point of view of the natives in Fiji, gives the date as 1802 or 1803, and says that the name of the reef prior to the shipwreck was Bukakatanoa.^[4]

One of the survivors of the wreck, Oliver Slater, spent the two years after the wreck on Vanua Levu, which has also been called "Sandalwood Island". This sailor is credited with spreading the news, upon his arrival in China, that led to the development of the sandalwood trade in Vanua Levu, near Bua Bay.^[5]

References

^ Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2 p30
^ Barrington, George (1810). The History of New South Wales, 2nd ed. London: Printed for M. Jones. pp. 238–239, 410–412.
^ Australian Shipwrecks - vol1 1622-1850, Charles Bateson, AH and AW Reed, Sydney, 1972, ISBN 0-589-07112-2 p30
^ Thomson, Basil; Bolton Glanvill Corney; James Stewart (1908). The Fijians: a study of the decay of custom. London: W. Heinemann. pp. 25–26. argo schooner fiji.
^ Dodge, Earnest S. (1976). Islands and Empires: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 62–63. ISBN 978-0-8166-0853-9. argo schooner fiji.

v t e Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 1800
Shipwrecks	5 Jan: HMS Mastiff 26 Jan: HMS Brazen January (unknown date): Argo February (unknown date): La Vengeance 10 Mar: HMS Repulse 13 Mar: Prince 17 Mar: HMS Queen Charlotte 15 May: HMS Cormorant 9 Jul: Queen July (unknown date): King George 8 Aug: USS Insurgent 10 Aug: HMS Dromedary 20 Aug: USS Pickering August (unknown date): Martha 26 Sep: HMS Hound 8 Oct: HMS Diligence 9 Oct: HMS Galgo October (unknown date): Earl Talbot, HMS Martin 3 Nov: HMS Marlborough 9 Nov: HMS Havick, Hired armed cutter Lion Unknown date: HMS America, Canada, Cornish Hero, Dublin, Norfolk, Recovery
Other incidents	21 Jan: Sarah Ann 3 Feb: Sarah Ann 4 Aug: Concorde 22 Aug: Latona 7 Oct: Confiance, Kent December (unknown date): Iris Unknown date: Shah Ardaseer
1799 1801

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