HMS Calypso was a Royal Navy Echo-class ship-sloop. She was built at Deptford between 1781 and 1783, launched on 27 September 1783 and first commissioned...

the Royal Navy were assigned the name Calypso, after Calypso, a sea nymph in Greek mythology: HMS Calypso (1783), a 16-gun sloop of 342 tons burthen,...

HMS Dictator was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 January 1783 at Limehouse. She was converted into a troopship in...

wrecked in May 1782 off Nova Scotia. HMS Blonde (1783) was a 32-gun fifth rate believed to have been launched in 1783. Little is known of her, and she may...

HMS Rattler was a 16-gun Echo-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Launched in March 1783, she saw service in the Leeward Islands and Nova Scotia before being...

joined forces with the smaller warships HMS Unicorn and HMS Lizard off Brest where the French frigate Calypso was destroyed in Audierne Bay on 12 September...

the colonization society, was commander of HMS Hankey; Hancorn, vice-president, was commander of HMS Calypso. Most of the settlers died and the survivors...

HMS Agamemnon was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She saw service in the American Revolutionary War, French Revolutionary...

notoriety surrounding his father's court martial returned to Tuscany in 1783 where Ramage remained until he joined the navy in 1788 at age 13. Despite...

Boyd was a brigantine built in 1783 at Limehouse on the river Thames, England. She originally traded as a West Indiaman, sailing between London and Saint...

in February 1809, becoming HMS Junon, retaken and scuttled by the French off Guadaloupe in December of the same year. Calypso, (launched 9 January 1807...

North America. On 2 January 1783, the convoy was chased by the 44-gun ship of the line HMS Endymion and the 32-gun frigates HMS Emerald and Magicienne. Kergariou-Locmaria...

Charles Spalding (29 October 1738 – 2 June 1783) was an Edinburgh confectioner and amateur engineer who made improvements to the diving bell. He died while...

being the birthplace of the steelpan, the limbo, and music styles such as calypso, soca, rapso, parang, chutney, and chutney soca music. Historian E. L....

Black former slaves from the Americas with Richard Hancorn, commander of HMS Calypso, on the island of Bulama off the coast of Portuguese Guinea. He departed...

Windsor Castle was launched at Whitby in 1783. Initially she was primarily a West Indiaman. Then from 1797 she made five voyages as a slave ship in the...

HMS Defence was a 74-gun Bellona-class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Israel Pownoll and launched on 31 March 1763 at Plymouth...

French Navy requisitioned her as a corvette. In May 1795 it renamed her Calypso. After about three years the Navy returned her to her owners. She cruised...

Hodge, a sprinter specialising in the 200 metres event. Konris Maynard, a Calypso musician and politician. Major-General Sir Robert Nickle, governor of Saint...

HMS Royal George was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A first-rate with 100 guns on three decks, she was the largest warship in the world at the...

HMS Adventure was a barque that the Royal Navy purchased in 1771. She had been the merchant vessel Marquis of Rockingham, launched in 1770 at Whitby....

1814, the yard had five building slips and two double dry docks. Between 1783 and 1812, they built 23 warships and two East Indiamen. From about 1825,...

April by the Royal Navy's HMS Foudroyant. San Miguel ( Spanish Navy): Great Siege of Gibraltar, 24 June 1779 – 7 February 1783: The 74-gun ship was captured...

was sighted by HMS Actaeon which had remained on station off Brest despite the storms but which failed to rendezvous with Hawke, by HMS Juno and Swallow...

Brothers performed calypso music for many decades both in Bermuda and the United States, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. While calypso appealed more...

her in June 1804 and converted her to a 44-gun fifth rate with the name HMS Mediator. The Navy converted her to a storeship in 1808, but then expended...

DMP · 52 53 Kalypso – Calypso, an Oceanid from Greek mythology, one of the many daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. Calypso kept Odysseus prisoner...

36 Selerais 30 Unicornio 24 Galera Victoria 40 Galgo de Andalucia 24 ex-HMS Greyhound (1712) Fidela 30 Santa Rita Galera de Neptuno 30 Gusana 24 Pingue...

scheduled to transport the regiment. Houghton sailed from Portsmouth on 11 March 1783, bound for Madras and China. She reached São Tiago on 4 April, and Madras...

privateer Boulonnoise, out of Dunkirk. On 2 February 1799, HMS Ethalion was operating with HMS Anson when together they captured Boulonnoise, which had...