Day Book Royal Naval Reserve-1918-1923

• Main Author: Great Britain. Royal Navy. Newfoundland Reserve
• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1918
• Subjects: Briton (Ship); Great Britain. Royal Navy. Newfoundland Reserve > Rum ration; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/calypso/id/1295

Two volumes of a day book used to record daily totals of liquor consumed on board HMS Briton, 1918-1920. The second volume starts out as a liquor day book and then is overwritten to record salt shipments delivered by HMS Briton, 1921-1923. The HMS Calypso Fonds consists of records relating to the ship's construction and later service with the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve. -- Ship history: HMS Calypso built in 1881-3 as a British Navy corvette, later reclassified as a third-class cruiser; transferred to the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve in 1902 as a training ship, docked in St. John's Harbour; renamed HMS Briton in 1916; decommissioned in 1922 and sold to Newfoundland merchantile firm A.H. Murray and Company, who used the hull for coal and salt storage; moved to Lewisporte in 1952, then towed in 1968 to a bay near Embree and burned, where it still lies derelict in the water.