Category:Circle Line XI (ship, 1932)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Argo-class cutter
• Design by:
• Order date:
• Built by: Bath Iron Works in Maine, costing about $258,000 in 1931 dollars
• Yard No:
• Keel laid:
• Launch date: 01.01.1932
• Date of completion: 16.01.1932
• Length over all: m
• LPP: m
• Beam: m
• Draught: m
• GRT:
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• NET:
• Main engine: Winton 158-6 large, slow speed (300 RPM cruising speed) four-stroke diesel
• Speed: kn

History[edit]

• 1932 Named: CALYPSO as USCGC Calypso (WPC-104) for the US Coast Guard Flag: United States
• 1940 While stationed at Norfolk, Virginia, damaging collision, involving a Navy submarine.
• 25.07.1948 Decommissioned from the military and taken to Cape May, New Jersey, where she was placed in storage and used as a training aid for the recruit indoctrination program.
• 02.11.1955 Sold to a scrap dealer for $ 15,564 but:
• Sold to Circle Line, reportedly for the grand sum of $1. Renamed: Circle Line XI
• 1958 Started carrying tourists around Manhattan. Her superstructure was rebuilt to make a twin deck passenger vessel, below decks she remained pretty much original.
• 02.11.2008 Final circuit of Manhattan, being replaced by a brand new boat.