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French ship Calypso

list of ships with the same or similar names

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ60521489 ↗
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At least four ships of the French Navy have borne the name Calypso:

French frigate Calypso (1795), launched in 1782 as the slave ship Baron de Binder in 1793 she became the privateer Duguay-Trouin. She was requisitioned in 1794 and rated as a corvette being renamed Calypso in 1795. Returned to her owners in 1797 and captured by the Royal Navy the following year.

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“French ship Calypso” enters the record as list of ships with the same or similar names. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what French, ship and Calypso can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “French ship Calypso” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.