The research vessel Calypso of Jacques Cousteau arriving in Montreal on 30 August 1980
History
United Kingdom
Name
HMS J-826
Builder
Ballard Marine Railway Company, Seattle, Washington, United States
Laid down
12 August 1941
Launched
21 March 1942
Commissioned
February 1943
Recommissioned
BYMS-2026 (1944)
Decommissioned
1946
Renamed
Calypso G (1949)
France
Owner
Thomas Guinness
Operator
Compagnie Océanographique Française, Nice
Renamed
Calypso (1950)
Reclassified
Research vessel
Refit
For Cousteau (1951)
Fate
Sunk and raised (1996)
Status
Being refurbished under the direction of the Cousteau Society
General characteristics [1]
Tonnage
294 GRT
Displacement
360 tons
Length
139 ft (42 m) (43 meters, according to another source)[2]
Beam
25 ft (7.6 m)
Draft
10 ft (3.0 m)
Decks
Three
Installed power
2 × 580 hp (430 kW) 8-cylinder General Motors diesel engines
Propulsion
Twin screw
Speed
10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Crew
27 in captain's quarters, 6 staterooms and crew quarters
Notes
Photo and science labs
Underwater observation chamber
Helicopter landing pad
Yumbo 3-ton hydraulic crane
Minisub storage hold
RV Calypso is a former British Royal Navy minesweeper converted into a research vessel for the oceanographic researcher Jacques Cousteau, equipped with a mobile laboratory for underwater field research. She was severely damaged in 1996 and was planned to undergo a complete refurbishment in 2009–2011 that has not been accomplished. The ship is named after the Greek mythological figure Calypso.
^"Sea Sabres: The Calypso: The stories she could tell!". 23 July 2003. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
^"Une pétition pour "sauver" la Calypso du commandant Cousteau". Le Point (in French). Agence France Presse. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
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