RV Calypso
Vessel
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. Wikipedia
Length: 138′
Launched: March 21, 1942
Commissioned: February 1943
Crew: 27 in captain's quarters, 6 staterooms and crew quarters
Decommissioned: 1946
Draft: 10 ft (3.0 m)
Fate: Sunk and raised (1996)
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