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USS Calypso (SP 632)

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Name
  
USS Calypso

Completed
  
1909

Commissioned
  
July 1917

Namesake
  
Previous name retained

Acquired
  
June 1917

Length
  
16 m

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Fate
  
Transferred to U.S. Bureau of Fisheries September 1919

The second USS Calypso (SP-632) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

Calypso was built as a private motorboat of the same name at Morris Heights in the Bronx, New York, in 1909. In June 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased her for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Calypso (SP-632) in July 1917.

Calypso performed patrol duty along the coast of the northeastern United States for the rest of World War I.

Calypso was transferred to the United States Bureau of Fisheries in September 1919.

References

USS Calypso (SP-632) Wikipedia