USS Calypso
USS ''Calypso'' has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to: * , an armed steamer in commission from 1863 to 1865 * , a patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 * , an auxiliary ship in commission from 1941 to 1942 See also * Calypso (ship) Several vessels have been named ''Calypso'' for the figure from Greek mythology. * ''Calypso'' was a snow of 47 tons ( bm), built in Dublin in 1792. On 21 June 1796 she sailed, probably from Liverpool, as a slave ship in the triangular trade in ens ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Calypso, USS United States Navy ship names ...
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Calypso (ship)
Several vessels have been named ''Calypso'' for the figure from Greek mythology. * ''Calypso'' was a snow of 47 tons ( bm), built in Dublin in 1792. On 21 June 1796 she sailed, probably from Liverpool, as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. "Renau's squadron" captured her on the Windward Coast of Africa; her master ransomed her. She then completed her voyage, arriving at Barbados on 1 June 1797 with 79 slaves. She then disappears from online records. * ''Calypso'', of 190 tons (bm), was built in Bermuda in 1795. The Sierra Leone Company purchased her circa 1796 to support their settlement in Sierra Leone. A French privateer under Spanish colours captured ''Calypso'', Cole, master, in February 1798 as ''Calypso'' was going down the Gold Coast from Sierra Leone. * 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 sev ...
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