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A plan to berth the CALYPSO at New Rochelle, Long Island has been announced by the town's mayor and Francine, the wife of the late maritime explorer Jacques Cousteau.
The CALYPSO, a 139ft former minesweeper was given to Captain Cousteau by the Guinness family, the Irish brewing family.
The ship became famous through Cousteau's popular television shows broadcast in the 1960s and 1970s, but after sinking off Singapore in 1996 and then languishing for five years in La Rochelle, France, the CALYPSO was no longer seaworthy and now will require a barge to transport her to the United States.
Four years since the conservationist pioneer's death, Jacques Cousteau's widow, Francine, has raised about the E4 million euros to move the vessel to La Rochelle's sister city, New Rochelle, in the US.
The plan will see the ship restored and opened as a museum with memorabilia from Captain Cousteau's collection. Exhibits will include a hot air balloon and a mini-submarine with CALYPSO docked at the city's marina. Mrs Cousteau is currently in negotiations with the Guinness family.
Calypso had to be taken by barge to La Rochelle too, where I gather she has just been left to rot, at least as at the middle of last year, unless they have done some work to her since then.
4m Euros seems a lot just to get her over the pond. Retired to Marseille, left to rot there, then La Rochelle. Is there any significant history to this 'boat' apart from it being Cousteau's?
Pam
New Rochelle is not on Long Island. It is in Westchester County, which for those of you who don't know our local geography, is near the New York border with Connecticut, and obviously is on the Long Island Sound which is in between Long Island and Connecticut/Westchester.
Happy Cruising,Cruiseny
In the case of "Calypso," the vessel configuration is insignificant; its background is. But it should be a component of a Maritime Museum with appropriate associated exhibits involving Costeau's work. By itself, it is just an elderly minesweeper - there are many such.
But Costeau's vessel with the rotary windvanes - the name escapes me at the moment, is another matter. It should be preserved - and probably is - somewhere.
[ 07-28-2002: Message edited by: Cambodge ]
quote:Originally posted by Barryboat:I forgot about this vessel....weird design...I saw something one time where they were considering building a huge cargo ship with these windtubes.
I don't think it was ever viable in the end, but maybe they are still working on it. There are also some smaller solar & wind powered vessels, which maybe more useful?
One reads about these inventions from time to time and then hears no more, so I assume the ideas die out or a niche in the market never found. Reading the site that latter photo came from it appears that a contract for 2 of these to run as ferries in Hong Kong was about to be signed [sept 2001].
Funny looking boats, those wind-tube ones. I don't especially like the aesthetics of Cousteau's, but that BP one is not too bad, maybe because of their paint scheme that rather disguises those huge appendages?
It seems that an increasing number of vessels of all types (racing sailboats, for instance) are showing up in BP's new colors.
I wonder if they are going to paint their oil tankers in that liver too? Certainly snappy IMHO. I like it and the new "bp | beyond petroleum" ad campaign too focussing on their new projects with alternative energy sources.
Here in the US Amoco is about do disappear under a sea of green and white too.
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