Star of India (ship)
 The Star of India in San Diego
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The Star of India (ex- Euterpe ) is a 1863-built Windjammer and now stands as a museum ship in the Maritime Museum of San Diego in the US.
history
The ship was built in 1863 as the Euterpe for the shipping company Wakefield, Nash & Company from Liverpool at the Gibson, McDonald & Arnold shipyard in Ramsey on the Isle of Man, England . The ship was built as an iron full ship. The maiden voyage and the subsequent voyage both led to Calcutta , with the ship sustained storm and collision damage on both voyages. On the second voyage home, the captain died, whereupon the Euterpe was given to the East India merchant David Brown, who continued to use it in the Indian trade. Another sale followed in 1871 to the well-known shipping company Shaw, Savill & Company , which used the ship for the next 27 years mainly on voyages to Australia and New Zealand, to the Pacific coast of the United States and back to Europe via Cape Horn (see Cape Hornier ). Ten times in a row the ship was led by Captain Th. E. Phillips on such voyages and proved to be rather slow on all voyages. In 1899, JJ Moore acquired the Euterpe for his shipping company Pacific Colonial Ship Company. Moore used the ship in the following two years under the Hawaiian flag in the timber trade from Puget Sound to Australia, on which mostly trips home with coal were undertaken. For trips with long timber as cargo, loading gates were cut into the stern of the ship.
After a sale to the San Francisco Alaska Packers' Association in 1901 riggte to the ship as Bark and extended the poop deck to the main mast in order to create more space for the crew. It was used in the salmon voyage under the US flag with a crew of up to 300 men . The trips to Alaska began in April, where salmon was caught and canned until September. In order to achieve a uniform naming of the fleet, Alaska Packers renamed the Euterpe to Star of India in 1906 and continued to use it in the salmon trade. By 1923, these trips we went on to continue and put the ship thereafter until 1926 on .
In 1926, J. Wood Coffroth bought the ship for the Zoological Society to transform it into a marine museum. The global economic crisis destroyed these plans. At the end of the Second World War, the ship was in poor condition in San Diego . It was there that the sailing ship captain and author Alan Villiers discovered the ship in 1957 and gave the first impetus to preserve the Star of India . In 1959 the "Star of India Auxiliary" association was founded to maintain the ship. By 1976 the ship had been restored and could be used again as seaworthy. Today the Star of India is part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego and is sailed at least once a year. It was never equipped with an auxiliary machine.
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen: The last great sailing ships . Delius Klasing publishing house, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0860-2 .
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Coordinates: 32 ° 43 '12.7 " N , 117 ° 10' 24.8" W.