Argonauta

Shortly after three o'clock the Spanish 80-gun ship "Argonauta" struck to the "Belleisle," which had been aided in her attack by the English

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

(Seen here, "Argonauta Argo" and "Physalia Arethusa" from the National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff.)

Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives 2006

Smith na saudosa colecção Argonauta, já lá vão uns 30 anos.

... Artur 2007

I was presented by Mr. Smith with two Paper Nautilus shells (_Argonauta tuberculosa_) found on the shore of Flinders Island this season, a circumstance which he has remarked occurs but every seventh year, when many hundreds are thrown up: the shells are rarely obtained perfect, as they are extremely fragile, and the sea fowl pick the fish out of them.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

Spanish ship, Argonauta, 80 guns, Don Antonio Parejo, sunk by the Ajax.

Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

The Argonauta herself was no mean prize, being of 1,000 tons burden, but the value of the capture was mainly in the prisoners of war and the mail matter going to General Blanco.

Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904

_Argonauta_, _Espana_, _Pluton_, _Terrible_, _Bucentaure_, _San Rafael_, and others, by means of which Dumaresq was able to identify some of them as ships that had been blockaded in the port of Toulon by Lord Nelson.

The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

He calls the nightingale _sirena de'boschi_, gunpowder _l'irreparabil fulmine terreno_, Columbus _il ligure Argonauta_, Galileo _il novello

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

There is a kind of Nautilus, called by Linneus, Argonauta, whose shell has but one cell; of this animal Pliny affirms, that having exonerated its shell by throwing out the water, it swims upon the surface, extending a web of wonderful tenuity, and bending back two of its arms and rowing with the rest, makes a sail, and at length receiving the water dives again.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

Beyond the war-ships and nearer to the eastern end of the island lay the captured Spanish prizes, including the big black liners Pedro and Miguel Jover, the snow-white Argonauta, the brigantine Frascito, and a dozen or more fishing-schooners intercepted by the blockading fleet while on their way back to Havana from the Yucatan banks.

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