Alcyone (1985 ship)

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General characteristics
Type:	Research ship
Length:	103 ft (31.4 m)[1]
Beam:	29 ft (8.8 m)[1]
Draught:	7 ft 8 in (2.3 m)[1]
Sail plan:	Turbosail 226 sq ft (21.0 m2) surface area[1]
Speed:	10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph)[1]
Crew:	12[1]

Alcyone is a ship launched at La Rochelle in 1985 for the Cousteau Society. Alcyone was created as an expedition ship and to test the operation of a new kind of marine propulsion system, the turbosail. Alcyone's two turbosails augment its diesel engines. Since the accidental sinking of missing name, Alcyone has been the Cousteau Society's expedition vessel.

• John Denver wrote a short song called "Alcyone The Wind" as a tribute to Alcyone. The song was sung in the 1993 documentary Secret Societies of Dolphins and Whales.

• Cousteau Society's ship page for the Alcyone
• Jean-Charles Nahon (Naval Architect Bureau Mauric) and Bernard Deguy (First captain of Alcyone): Experience with sail assisted propulsion: the Alcyone (presentation slides, 2013. PDF, 13 MB)
• Description of Turbosail
• "Description of Turbosail". Cousteau Society. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210648/http://www.cousteau.org/en/downloadfiles/alcyone_and_turbosail.pdf. 

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