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Bulbous bow observation chamber of Calypso. The British millionaire and former Member of Parliament (MP), Thomas Loel Guinness bought Calypso in July 1950. [5] [6] He leased her to Cousteau for a symbolic one franc a year. He had two conditions: that Cousteau never ask him for money and that he never reveal his identity, which only came out ...
Meraud, Tanis, and Loel Guinness as children Grave of Bridget Henrietta Frances Williams-Bulkeley, the mother of Thomas "Loel" Guinness, in Mougins, France. Born in Manhattan and raised in the United States and England, Loel Guinness was the only son of Benjamin Seymour Guinness, an Irish lawyer from whom he inherited a fortune, and his first wife, Bridget Henrietta Frances Williams-Bulkeley.
In 1950, he founded the French Oceanographic Campaigns (FOC), and leased a ship called Calypso from Thomas Loel Guinness for a symbolic one franc a year. Cousteau refitted the Calypso as a mobile laboratory for field research and as his principal vessel for diving and filming.
Thomas Loel Guinness bought the ship and leased it to Jacques for a dollar a year. Simone sold her family jewels for the Calypso's fuel, and her fur to buy a compass and gyroscope. [2] The Calypso set off in 1952 on her maiden voyage, to the Red Sea. Simone was the only woman on board.
(Portrait of Calypso, between 1938 and 1948) - Lord Invader "60 Million Frenchmen" (1996), Mighty Sparrow [ 35 ] "Ah Fraid Pussy Bite Me" (1987), Mighty Sparrow [ 1 ]
Calypso: 1950: 1950: Joseph Gasan: Built in 1942 for the Royal Navy as HMS J-826 (later renamed BYMS-2026). Decommissioned 1946 and sold to Gasan in 1949. Became a ferry for a couple of months before it was sold to Irish millionaire Thomas Guinness who loaned it to Jacques Cousteau as a research ship. It was abandoned after 1997 and is to ...
The Talbot Brothers were a musical group based in Bermuda that were among the most popular calypso performers of the 1950s. The band was composed of brothers Archie (lead singer, acoustic guitar, harmonica), Austin (acoustic guitar, harmonica), Bryan, a.k.a. "Dick" (tipple, a large, 10-stringed ukulele), Ross, a.k.a. "Blackie" (electric guitar) and Roy Talbot (), and their cousin Cromwell ...
The Fabulous McClevertys were a calypso band from the US Virgin Islands that performed in the 1950s and 60s.. Saxophonist John McCleverty began performing in the United States in the late 1940s with guitarist Gustav Civil, pianist Cornelius Williams, and drummer David Heyliger, as Johnny McCleverty's Calypso Boys. [1]