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=== As ''Euterpe'' ===
Named after [[Euterpe (muse)|Euterpe]], the Greek muse of music, she was a [[full-rigged ship]] (a ship that is square-rigged on all three masts), built of iron in 1863 by Gibson, McDonald & Arnold, of [[Ramsey, Isle of Man]], for the Indian [[jute trade]] of Wakefield Nash & Company of [[Liverpool]].  She was launched on 14 November 1863, and assigned British Registration No.47617 and signal VPJK.

''Euterpe's'' career had a rough beginning.  She sailed for [[Calcutta]] from Liverpool on 9 January 1864, under the command of Captain William John Storry. A collision with an unlit Spanish [[brig]] off the coast of [[Wales]] carried away the [[jib-boom]] and damaged other rigging. The crew became mutinous, refusing to continue, and she returned to [[Anglesey]] for repair; 17 of the crew were confined to the [[Beaumaris Gaol]] at hard labour. Then, in 1865, ''Euterpe'' was forced to cut away her masts in a gale in the [[Bay of Bengal]] off [[Madras]] and limped to [[Trincomalee]] and Calcutta for repair.  Captain Storry died during the return voyage to England and was [[Burial at sea|buried at sea]].{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

After her near-disastrous first two voyages ''Euterpe'' was sold, first in 1871 to David Brown of London for whom she made four more relatively uneventful voyages to India, then again (displaced by steamers after the opening of the Suez Canal) in 1871 to Shaw, Savill and Company of London (which in 1882 became the [[P Henderson & Company#Shaw, Savill & Albion Line|Shaw, Savill & Albion Line]]).  In late 1871 she began 25 years of carrying passengers and freight in the New Zealand emigrant trade, each voyage going eastward around the world before returning to England.  The fastest of her 21 passages to New Zealand took 100 days, the longest 143 days.  She also made ports of call in Australia, California, and Chile.  A baby was born on one of those trips en route to New Zealand, and was given the middle name Euterpe. Another child, John William Philips Palmer, was born<ref>Otago Witness, Issue 1115, 12 April 1873, Page 12, [http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18730412.1.12&e=-------10--1----0-- http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz]</ref> on the 1873 journey to [[Dunedin]], New Zealand, and was partially named after the captain Theo E. Philips<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/euterpe1.htm|title=The "Euterpe" - New Zealand Voyages.|website=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref> ("Born Lo 42.30 south La 0.30 west at 11 am Feb 21").{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

In 1897, after 21 round-the-world trips, ''Euterpe'' was sold, first to [[Hawaii]]an owners, then in 1899 to the Pacific Colonial Ship Company of [[San Francisco]], California, and from 1898 to 1901 made four voyages between the Pacific Northwest, Australia and Hawaii carrying primarily lumber, coal and sugar. She was registered in the United States on 30 October 1900.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}