USS Calypso (SP-632) tied up in an icy harbor sometime between 1917 and 1919.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Calypso |
Namesake | Calypso, in Greek mythology, a nymph who lived on the island of Ogygia, where, according to the Odyssey, she detained Odysseus for seven years |
Owner | A. L. Mason, Westfield, New Jersey (1917) |
Builder | New York Yacht, Launch & Engine Company, Morris Heights, Bronx, New York |
Completed | 1909 |
Fate | Sold to U.S. Navy June 1917 |
United States Navy | |
Name | USS Calypso |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | June 1917 |
Commissioned | July 1917 |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries 9 September 1919 |
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries | |
Name | USFS Merganser |
Namesake | Merganser, a fish-eating duck of the genus Mergus in the subfamily Anatinae |
Acquired | 9 September 1919 |
Identification |
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Fate | Transferred to Fish and Wildlife Service 30 June 1940 |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | |
Name | US FWS Merganser |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | 30 June 1940 |
Decommissioned | 1942 or 1943 |
General characteristics (as private motorboat) | |
Type | Motorboat |
Length | 45 ft (13.7 m) |
Propulsion | 20 hp (15 kW) Alco gasoline engine |
General characteristics (as U.S. Navy patrol boat) | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Length | 54 ft (16.5 m) |
Propulsion | 20 hp (15 kW) Alco gasoline engine |
General characteristics (as BOF patrol boat) | |
Type | Fishery patrol vessel |
Tonnage | |
Length | 54 ft (16.5 m) |
Beam | 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) |
Draft | 3 ft 8 in (1.1 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 9 mph (14 km/h) |
The second USS Calypso (SP-632) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919. She originally operated as the private motorboat Calypso from 1909 to 1917. After the conclusion of her U.S. Navy career, she served as the fishery patrol vessel in the United States Bureau of Fisheries fleet from 1919 to 1940 as USFS Merganser and in the Fish and Wildlife Service fleet as US FWS Merganser from 1940 to 1942.