Star of India (ship)
The Star of India in San Diego
- Euterpe
The Star of India (ex - Euterpe ) is a 1863 -built windjammer and liegte today as a museum ship at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in the United States.
History
The ship was built in 1863 as Euterpe for the shipping company Wakefield Nash & Company of Liverpool at the shipyard Gibson, McDonald & Arnold in Ramsey on the English Isle of Man. The ship was built as the cast iron full-rigged ship. The maiden voyage and the subsequent drive both led to Calcutta, where the ship on two trips storm and collision damage suffered. At the second home, the captain died, whereupon the Euterpe was delivered to the East India merchant David Brown, who started in India continue to trade. 1871 followed by a further sale to the renowned shipping company Shaw, Savill & Company, which returns the ship over the following 27 years mostly on trips to Australia and New Zealand, the Pacific coast of the United States and Cape Horn to Europe, began (see Chapter Hoornier ). Only ten times in a row, the ship was out on such trips by Captain T. E. Phillips and turned on all trips to be rather slow. In 1899, JJ Moore acquired the Euterpe for his shipping company Pacific Colonial Ship Company. Moore put the ship in the next two years under the Hawaiian flag in the timber trade from Puget Sound to Australia, where most trips home with coal have been made. For those traveling long wood as a charge to cut cargo ports in the stern of the ship.
After a sale to the San Francisco Alaska Packers ' Association in 1901 to riggte the ship as Bark and extended the poop deck to the main mast in order to create more space for the crew. Under American Flag with up to 300 -man crew, it was used in the salmon trip. The trips to Alaska began in April, there was caught up to September salmon and tinned. In order to achieve a consistent naming of the fleet, named the Euterpe Alaska Packers in 1906 in Star of India around and continued to use them in the salmon trip. By 1923, one led these trips further away, and put the ship from then until 1926.
1926 acquired J. Wood Coffroth the ship for the Zoological Society to reshape it a oceanographic museum. The world economic crisis nullified these plans. End of the Second World War, the ship was in poor condition in San Diego. There, the sailing ship captain and author Alan Villiers discovered the ship in 1957 and gave the first impetus to the conservation of the Star of India. In 1959, the Association " Star of India Auxiliary " founded for the preservation of the ship. By 1976, the ship was restored and could be used as seaworthy again. Today, the Star of India is part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego and at least once sailed every year.