&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Calypso_a2.jpg) HMS Calypso
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Calypso |
| Builder | HM Dockyard Chatham |
| Cost | Hull: £82,000; machinery: £37,500[1] |
| Laid down | 1881 |
| Launched | 7 June 1883 |
| Commissioned | 21 September 1885 (first commission) |
| Renamed | HMS Briton, 15 February 1916 |
| Reclassified | Training ship, 2 September 1902 |
| Fate | Sold 7 April 1922; burned off Jobs Cove near Embree, NL |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type | Calypso-class corvette |
| Displacement | 2,770 long tons (2,810 t) |
| Length | 235 ft (71.6 m) pp |
| Beam | 44 ft 6 in (13.6 m) |
| Draught | 19 ft 11 in (6.1 m) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | 4-cylinder J. and G. Rennie compound-expansion steam engine driving a single screw |
| Sail plan | Barque rig[Note 1] |
| Speed | 13.75 knots (25.47 km/h; 15.82 mph) powered; 14.75 knots (27.32 km/h; 16.97 mph) forced draught |
| Armament |
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| Armour | Deck: 1.5 in (38 mm) over machinery |
HMS Calypso was a corvette (designated as a third-class cruiser from 1887[2]) of the Royal Navy and the lead ship of her 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 she 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.[3]
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. Her hull still exists, awash in the Bay of Exploits south of Embree in Newfoundland.
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