Argonaut

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Argonaut may refer to:

• An argonaut (animal), a kind of octopus in the genus Argonauta
• Jason and the Argonauts, sailors in Greek mythology
• The Argonauts of St. Nicholas, a military order in Naples
• The Argonaut Conference, the codename for The Yalta Conference, the 1945 wartime meeting between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin

In transportation:

• Argonaut (submarine), Simon Lake's first submarine
• USS Argonaut, the name of two submarines of the United States Navy
• HMS Argonaut, the name given to four ships of the Royal Navy
• French ship Argonaute, the name of various French vessels
• The Argonaut (passenger train), a train operated by the Southern Pacific railroad between Los Angeles, California and New Orleans, Louisiana
• The Canadair Argonaut, a version of the DC-4 airliner using Rolls-Royce Merlin engines
• Argonaut (automobile), an American automobile manufactured from 1959 to 1963

Companies:

• Argonaut Games, a British video game company
• Argonaut (shipbuilder), a shipbuilding company
• Argonaut Mine, a defunct gold mine in Jackson, California
• The Argonaut Foundation, an organization dedicated to saving and restoring historic movies, TV series and soundtracks

Publications:

• A 2002 book by Stanley Schmidt
• The Argonaut, a weekly newspaper based in Marina del Rey, California
• The Argonaut, the University of Idaho student newspaper

Other:

• The Argonaut class reactor, a type of small nuclear research reactor
• The Toronto Argonauts, a team in the Canadian Football League
• The Argonaut, the mascot of the University of West Florida
• Argonaute proteins, catalytic components of the complex that mediates RNA interference
• Argonaut Island, actually Ulleungdo drawn at the incorrect coordinates on some European maps of the 19th century. Some Japanese maps reproduced the error with the label Takeshima, causing confusion with Dokdo. [1]
• The name of the vehicle Jason Chaser rides in the novel Hover Car Racer