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Post by trapezus on Sept 28, 2016 4:56:11 GMT -8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koIqkN4LxIYL'épave du drageur de mines BYMS 22 (British Yard Minesweeper), sistership de la Calypso, qui sauta sur une mine, le lendemain du débarquement de Provence, le 16 août 1944 à Saint-Raphaël (profondeur : -41m) Translation: The wreck of drageur BYMS of 22 mines (British Yard Minesweeper), sistership of the Calypso, which hit a mine, the day after the landing in Provence, August 16, 1944 in Saint-Raphaël (depth: -41m) (John C. Ratliff--edit)
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Post by SeaRat on Sept 28, 2016 14:59:32 GMT -8
Wow, what a neat short film of the sister ship of the Calypso, sunk in 1944. I see the old and the new in this dive, as the cameramen were in rebreathers and Jean-Pierre Concheroy was is a twin tank scuba, and using a Mistral regulator as his primary. Referring to his scuba unit, Jean-Pierre said: I have a very similar setup with my Sherwood manifold on my twin 45s. I used it just last week with my Healthways hybrid SCUBA regulator, and it was very nice. As a backup I had my Scubapro AIR-1, with a computer, which I see is exactly how Jean-Pierre set his up. Only, mine has my double hose regulator in the center position.  I think that Jean-Pierre and I may be about the same age.  I hope you don't mind, Trapezus, that I added the English translation to your text above. John |
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 28, 2016 15:53:24 GMT -8
I rather liked his droll sense of humor  SIDE NOTE: In the SF Bay Area, we have an area called San Raphael too, but we pronounce it San Raffel  JB |
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 28, 2016 15:56:53 GMT -8
I think that Jean-Pierre and I may be about the same age. John And that would be 39, right? (Sorry, that was an OOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD Jack Benny joke, he was always 39-- ALWAYS!JB |
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Sept 28, 2016 22:39:20 GMT -8
Fascinating film. The page where the video can be accessed has the following rendering of the French caption: "The wreck of BYMS 22 (British Yard Minesweeper), sistership of the Calypso, which hit a mine, the day after the landing in Provence, August 16, 1944 in Saint-Raphaël (depth: -41m)." "Drageur de mines" is the French term for a minesweeper. I was interested in the "British" aspect of the ship's description and found a Wikipedia article: "The BYMS class was a class of wooden motor minesweepers, part of the US Navy YMS Yard class minesweepers. 150 ships destined for UK were launched from 1941 to 1943. The initial 80 ships were ordered by the U.S. Navy specifically for transfer to the United Kingdom under the Lend-Lease Programme. On transfer to Britain, BYMS-1 to BYMS-80 were assigned the British pennant numbers BYMS-2001 to BYMS-2080. Names were not assigned to the class members. The same article makes reference to the Calypso: "Jacques Cousteau's well-known ship Calypso was originally built by the Ballard Marine Railway Company of Seattle, Washington, USA. She was a BYMS Mark 1 Class Motor Minesweeper, laid down on 12 August 1941 with the yard designation BYMS-26 and launched on 21 March 1942. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy in February 1943 as HMS J-826 and assigned to active service in the Mediterranean Sea, redesignated as BYMS-2026 in 1944, laid up at Malta and finally struck from the Naval Register in 1947." |
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Post by nikeajax on Sept 29, 2016 9:07:15 GMT -8
Grumble-grumble-grumble: it didn't say where they were built  JB |
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