Euterpe
Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 9:52 pm
Built as an iron full rigged ship by Gibson, Mc Donald & Arnold, Ramsey, Isle of Man for the Liverpool owner Wakefield Nash & Co.
14 November 1863 launched as EUTERPE, named for the muse of music Euterpe.
Tonnage 1,197 gross, 1,197 net, dim. 84.5 x 11.8 x 6.60m., length of deck 62.47m., length bpp. 62.4m.
She was built for the jute trade between India and the U.K.
09 January 1864 left for her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Calcutta under command of Capt. William John Storry.
When off the coast of Wales she came in collision with a Spanish brig, in which she lost her jib-boom, sailed to Anglesey for repair. The crew get mutinous and on arrival at Anglesey 17th men were arrested and put in the Beaumaris Gaol, during the time she was under repair.
1865 During a gale off Madras she was dismasted and was repaired in Trncomalee. Capt Storry got ill and died during the return voyage and was buried at sea.
1867 Sold to David Brown, London, not renamed. Used in the trades between U.K. and India.
1871 Sold to Shaw, Savill & Co., London for their liner service with cargo and emigrants from the U.K. to Australasia.
1872 Under command of Captain Thomas E. Phillips.
07 December 1872 she sailed from the U.K. and made her first voyage to New Zealand after a passage of 117 days she arrived at Dunedin on 04 April 1873.
All together she made 18 voyages to New Zealand.
02 August 1879 sailed from London to Lyttleton, after sailing she met stormy weather in the English Channel and it took her 19 days before she was clear of the English coast, after a passage of 143 days she arrived on 24 December in Lyttleton, New Zealand.
1880 Command was taken over by Capt. A. Banks for one voyage, after which Phillips returned on board.
After 21 voyages around the world , out via Cape of Good Hope and return via Cape Horn the EUTERPE was sold in 1897 to J.J. Moore Honolulu, Hawaii, not renamed
1899 Sold to Pacific Colonial Ship Company, San Francisco, not renamed.
She was then under the flag of Hawaii, and carried cargos from the Pacific North West to Australia and Hawaii, transporting lumber from the Puget Sound to Australia, with a return cargo of coal or sugar.
For the lumber trade two loading ports had to be cut in the stern of the vessel to load the long trunks and beams.
30 October 1900 under USA registry.
1901 sold to Alaska Packers Association of San Francisco, and rerigged in a bark. Accommodation was created for more as 200 men. Her gross tonnage increased to 1318 tons. Not renamed.
Under command of Capt. G.A. Swanson she carried fishermen, cannery workers, coal and canning supplies each spring from Oakland to Nushagak, Alaska in the Bering Sea., and returning in the fall with the holds filled with canned salmon.
1906 She was renamed in STAR OF INDIA by the company to be consistent with the rest of their fleet naming.
Circa 1908 the command was taken over by Captain Christiansen.
After her last sailing season in 1923 was she laid up, she made 22 Alaskan voyages.
1926 Sold to James Wood Coffroth for the Zoological Society of San Diego, California.
He bought the STAR OF INDIA to be the centrepiece of a planned museum and aquarium.
At the end of World War II she was in a very bad condition, her topmasts and yards had to been removed due to the heavy air traffic over San Diego
But due to the Great Depression in the 30s and World War II the plans were cancelled.
1959 A group of citizens of San Diego formed the Star of India Auxiliary which supported the restoration of the vessel.
The restoration was slow not until her 100th birthday it was almost completed.
From 1976 she has made short voyages under sail from time to time.
In her tweendeck is an oceanographic museum.
2015 Owned by Maritime Museum Association of San Diego, with homeport San Diego, Embarcadero.
Isle of Man 1988 16p sg385, scott?, MSsg389, scott? ( the 34p stamp shows her as the STAR OF INDIA) 2019 1st sg?, scott?
http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... dia#p17262
Mozambique 2018 116.00 MT sg?, scott?
Source: Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schäuffelen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_of_India_(ship) http://www.sjohistoriskasamfundet.se/LB ... 1863).html