Calypso Construction Journal 1881

• Main Author: Lovett, J. H. (carpenter)
• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1881
• Subjects: Calypso (Ship); Great Britain. Royal Navy; Corvettes (Warships) > Great Britain > 19th century; Naval Architecture > Great Britain > 19th century; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/calypso/id/355

A construction journal of HMS Calypso provides details of the vessel’s construction kept by J.H. Lovett, carpenter at Chatham Dockyard. 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.