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CALYPSO, The

By | 2018-03-01T20:09:26+00:00 March 1st, 2017|Diving Legends, Who's Who|

CALYPSO, The

France (1941- )

Last updated: March 1, 2018 at 20:09 pm

Royal Navy BYMS-1 Class Motor Minesweeper: laid down 12 August 1941 as BYMS-26 by the Ballard Marine Railway Co., Inc., Seattle, WA; completed and transfered to Great Britain in August 1942 as J-826; converted to a car ferry and named Calypso in 1947; acquired by Loël Guinness in 1950 and offered to Jacques-Yves Cousteau who transformed it into an oceanographic vessel; struck by a barge and sunk at Singapore (1996); salvaged and towed to Marseille, France; tied up in Larochelle in an advanced stage of decay for a decade; towed to Piriou shipyard in Concarneau for complete refit in 2007 but work not completed; shipyard seeks legal order to sell the historic ship in March 2015; talks held in March 2015 to repair and relocate the Calypso to the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco for permanent exhibit; moved to Turkey in 2016 for a full refit, including new engines; damaged by fire during the refit in September 2017.

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