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In Greek mythology, the Argo (/ ˈ ɑːr ɡ oʊ / AR-goh; Ancient Greek: Ἀργώ, romanized: Argṓ) was the ship of Jason and the Argonauts. The ship was built with divine aid, and some ancient sources describe her as the first ship to sail the seas. The Argo carried the Argonauts on their quest for the Golden Fleece from Iolcos to Colchis ...
HMS Cutlass – name given to four ships of the Royal Navy – the first a battleship present at the Battle of the Nile; the second an ironclad sunk in World War I; the third a World War II destroyer, and the most recent ship a Cold War-era destroyer. All four ships appear in the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage.
The original Argo, used to find Titanic, was 15 feet (4.6 m)long, 3.5 feet (1.1 m) tall, and 3.5 feet (1.1 m) wide and weighed about 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) in air. It had an array of cameras looking forward and down, as well as strobes and incandescent lighting to illuminate the ocean floor.
Jason Junior, also called JJ, was a small remotely operated vehicle (ROV) designed and built by the Deep Submergence Laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI). Jason Jr. was a prototype for a larger, more capable ROV named Jason , which was being developed to complement the Argo uncrewed undersea video camera sled.
The Titanic is set to sail once again. Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has noodled for years with the idea of building Titanic II : a full replica of the doomed luxury liner that sank on its ...
A prototype of Jason called Jason Jr. was used with Alvin to explore Titanic in 1986. [7] Jason Jr. was lost at sea in 1991. Jason and Medea were named after the married characters of Greek mythology. [8] In late summer 2021, two other ROVs, Hercules and Argus, were lost when the ship tether broke while deployed off the coast of Victoria Island.
Argo derived from the ship Argo in Greek mythology, sailed by Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece. [1] Some stars of Puppis and Vela can be seen from Mediterranean latitudes in winter and spring, the ship appearing to skim along the "river of the Milky Way."
Ships that are part of the mythology of particular cultures. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. N. Noah's Ark (3 C, 18 P)