Maritime History

HMS Calypso (1783)

HMS Calypso was a 16-gun Echo-class ship-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Deptford between 1781 and 1783, launched on 27 September 1783 and first commissioned on 1 December 1783 for service off Northern Ireland and Scotland. She served in the North Sea, Atlantic, and the West Indies. Calypso sank whilst acting as a convoy escort on 30 July 1803 after colliding with a West Indiaman merchant ship during a violent storm.

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• ▸HMS Agamemnon (1781)
• ▸Cherokee language
• ▸Eleuthera

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