Alcyone (1985 ship)

Turbosail ship Alcyone in harbour
History
France
Name:	Alcyone
Namesake:	Alcyone
Owner:	Cousteau Society
Port of registry:	La Rochelle,  France
Builder:	Ateliers & Chantiers La Rochelle Pallice
Yard number:	1238
Launched:	1985[1]
Completed:	1985
Homeport:	Concarneau, Brittany, France[2]
Identification:	Call sign: FIOX IMO number: 8412833 MMSI number: 226195000
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 Calypso, Alcyone has been the Cousteau Society's expedition vessel.

Alcyone in popular culture

• 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.

References

External links

• 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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