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ARGYLE
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4th rate
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Built in 1711, Chatham DY as BONAVENTURE.
Renamed in January 1715.
Used as a breakwater in 1748. |
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- 1716 Capt. Conningby NORBURY. With Vice Ad. CORNWALL's flag to the Mediterranean. When Ad. BYNG arrived Mr CORNWALL removed his flag to SHREWSBURY. He distinguished himself in the action with the Spanish fleet off Cape Passaro 31 July, when ARGYLE led the detachment which pursued the six warships, gallies and smaller vessels under the Marquis de Maris, which separated from the Spanish fleet prior to the engagement. Mr CORNWALL moved his flag back to ARGYLE when he was ordered to convoy the captured ships into Port Mahon.
- 1734 Capt. Duncombe DRAKE. The year of his appointment is not known, but he died in command on 22 May 1734, aged 40, the son of Sir Francis Drake of Buckland, Devon and wife of Grace, daughter of Nicholas Trevanion, commissioner of Plymouth Dockyard.
- 1734 He was succeeded by Capt. George SLAUGHTER (whose name is also variously spelt as SCALTER or SLATER).
- 1739 Capt. Richard NORRIS. The son of Ad. Sir John NORRIS. He had been appointed to GLOUCESTER, one of the ships ordered to the South Seas under ANSON, but when he pleaded ill health on arrival at Madeira, he was allowed to return to England, where he was immediately appointed to ARGYLE. He was shortly promoted to KINGSTON .
- 1740 Joshua (or Joseph) LINGEN. In the summer of 1740 ARGYLE and KENNINGTON, Capt. ROBINSON, were escorting the homeward bound Straits, Oporto and Leghorn trade. Off Carthagena they discovered a Spanish privateer hovering about the fleet which the KENNINGTON gave chace to, but the Spaniard was too nimble. Between the privateer and the shore was a Bermudas sloop bound for Gibraltar with provisions for the garrison. Her captain, Spanworth, sailed boldly up to the Spaniard, clapped him on board. and in the height of the engagement having killed the Spanish captain, obliged her to strike, although she had 70 men. This exploit was so admired by Capt. LINGEN and his people that they cheerfully resigned their prize shares to the sloop. The privateer was sold and divided among them at Gibraltar.
- Capt. LINGEN was promoted to CAMBRIDGE (80), the following year.
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