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RV Calypso
Jacques Cousteau's oceanographic research ship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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![]() The research vessel Calypso of Jacques Cousteau arriving in Montreal on 30 August 1980 | |
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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) |
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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 |
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