Calypso (ship)

Several vessels have been named Calypso for the figure from Greek mythology.


 * Calypso was a snow of 47 tons (bm), built in Dublin in 1792. On 21 June 1796 she sailed, probably from Liverpool, as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. "Renau's squadron" captured her on the Windward Coast of Africa; her master ransomed her. She then completed her voyage, arriving at Barbados on 1 June 1797 with 79 slaves. She then disappears from online records.
 * Calypso, of 190 tons (bm), was built in Bermuda in 1795. The Sierra Leone Company purchased her circa 1796 to support their settlement in Sierra Leone. A French privateer under Spanish colours captured Calypso, Cole, master, in February 1798 as Calypso was going down the Gold Coast from Sierra Leone.
 * 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. She was severely damaged in 1996 and was planned to undergo a complete refurbishment in 2009–2011.
 * MS The Calypso, a cruiseliner
 * SS Calypso, an ocean liner
 * FRENCH SHIP Calypso, the name of several ships of France
 * HMS Calypso, the name of several vessels of the British Royal Navy
 * USS Calypso, the name of several vessels of the U.S. Navy

Ship classes

 * Calypso-class corvette, a British Royal Navy steam corvette class
 * Calypso-class spéronare, a French Navy sail transport class