HMS Calypso (1883)
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HMS Calypso was a corvette (designated as a third-class cruiser from 1887) of the Royal Navy and the lead ship of its namesake class. Built for distant cruising in the heyday of the British Empire, the vessel served as a warship and training vessel until 1922, when it was sold.
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HMS Calypso (1883)
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HMS Calypso
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Deck: over machinery
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Hull: £82,000; machinery: £37,500
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*6 boilers
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--09-02
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--02-15
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powered; forced draught
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1885-09-21
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Barque rig
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* 4 × BL Mark II 26 calibre guns
* 12 × BL guns
* 6 × QF Nordenfelt guns
* 4 × Gardner machine guns
* 2 × 14-inch torpedo carriages
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HM Dockyard Chatham
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United Kingdom
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--04-07
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1881
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1883-06-07
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pp
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HMS Calypso
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*4-cylinder J. and G. Rennie compound-expansion steam engine driving a single screw
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HMS Calypso was a corvette (designated as a third-class cruiser from 1887) of the Royal Navy and the lead ship of its namesake class. Built for distant cruising in the heyday of the British Empire, the vessel served as a warship and training vessel until 1922, when it was sold. Originally classified as a screw corvette, Calypso was also one of the Royal Navy's last sailing corvettes but supplemented an extensive sail rig with a powerful engine. Among the first of the smaller cruisers to be given steel hulls instead of iron, the hull nevertheless was cased with timber and coppered below the water line, as were wooden ships. Unlike Calliope, the more famous member of the class, Calypso had a quiet career, consisting mainly of training cruises in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1902 the warship was sent to the colony of Newfoundland and served as a training ship for the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve before and during the First World War. In 1922 Calypso was declared surplus and sold, then used as a storage hulk. Its hull still exists, awash in the Bay of Exploits south of Embree in Newfoundland.
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Sold 7 April 1922; burned off Jobs Cove near Embree, NL
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