RV Calypso
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.
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 | |
| Tonnage | 294 GRT |
| Displacement | 360 tons |
| Length | 139 ft (42 m) (43 meters, according to another source) |
| 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 |
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