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Calypso, 1783
Type: Ship-sloop, quarter-decked, large ; Armament 16
Launched : 1783 ;
Disposal date or year : Aug 1803
Disposal Details : Foundered, August, by being run down in a gale, by one of a convoy coming from Jamaica : crew perished. Capt William Venour (Vol iii, Appendix No 24)
Notes:
24 Oct 1799 protection of a Jamaica convoy by the frigate Crescent and the ship-sloop Calypso from a small Spanish squadron and the capture of the Spanish corvette Galgo.
12 Apr 1800 Master and 10 men in the ship's cutter capture the French privateer-schooner Diligente, of six carriage-guns, 30 stands of arms, and 39 men.