Editing Star of India (ship)

{{Short description|A museum ship harbored in San Diego, USA}}
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|Ship tonnage=*1,197 tons gross, 1,107 tons under deck (''Euterpe'')
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| caption                  = ''Euterpe'' at [[Port Chalmers]], the port of [[Dunedin]], in 1883
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'''''Star of India''''' is an [[iron-hulled sailing ship]], built in 1863 in [[Ramsey, Isle of Man]], as the [[full-rigged ship]] '''''Euterpe'''''. After a career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she was renamed, re-rigged as a [[barque]], and became a [[salmon]] [[hauler]] on the [[Alaska]] to [[California]] route. Retired in 1926, she was restored as a seaworthy [[museum ship]] in 1962–3 and home-ported at the [[Maritime Museum of San Diego]] in [[San Diego]], California. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.sdmaritime.org/star-of-india/
|title=Step aboard the world's oldest active sailing ship
|publisher=[[Maritime Museum of San Diego]]
|access-date=2012-09-15
}}</ref> The ship is both a [[California Historical Landmark]] and United States [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="nhlsum"/><ref name=CHL/><ref name="nnrhpinv">{{cite web |last=Snell |first=Charles |title=National Register of Historic Places - Inventory Nomination Form / Star of India |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |year=1965 |url={{NHLS url|id=66000223}} |format=pdf |access-date=2012-05-20}} and <br />{{cite web |title=Accompanying Photos |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |year=1965 |url={{NHLS url|id=66000223|photos=y}} |format=pdf |access-date=2012-05-20}}</ref>

== History ==

=== 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}}

=== As ''Star of India'' ===
[[File:STARofIndia(c)Ted Rufus Ross.JPG|thumb|right|''Star of India'' docked in San Diego]]

In 1901, ''Euterpe'' was sold to the [[Alaska Packers' Association]] of San Francisco, who re-rigged her as a [[barque]] (converting the square-rigged aftermost mast to fore-and-aft) and in 1902 began carrying fishermen, cannery workers, coal and canning supplies each spring from [[Oakland, California]], to [[Nushagak, Alaska|Nushagak]] in the [[Bering Sea]], returning each autumn with holds full of canned salmon.  In 1906, the Association changed her name to be consistent with the rest of their fleet, and she became ''Star of India''. She was laid up in 1923 after 22 Alaskan voyages; by that time, steam ruled the seas.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

In 1926, ''Star of India'' was sold to the [[Zoological Society of San Diego]] to be the centrepiece of a planned museum and [[public aquarium|aquarium]]. The [[Great Depression]] and [[World War II]] caused that plan to be cancelled, and it was not until 1957 that restoration began. [[Alan Villiers]], a [[windjammer]] captain and author, came to San Diego on a lecture tour. Seeing ''Star of India'' decaying in the harbor, he publicized the situation and inspired a group of citizens to form the "Star of India Auxiliary" in 1959 to support the restoration of the ship. Progress was still slow, but in 1976, ''Star of India'' finally put to sea again. She houses exhibits for the [[Maritime Museum of San Diego]], is kept fully seaworthy, and sails at least once a year. With the many other ships now in the Museum, she hosts frequent tour guide-led school tours for over 6,000 children a year, as well as a Living History Program in which students "step back in time" and are immersed in history and teamwork activities during overnight visits.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

The 1863  ''Star of India'' is the fourth oldest ship afloat in the United States, after the 1797  {{USS|Constitution}}, 1841 [[Charles W. Morgan (ship)|''Charles W. Morgan'']], and the 1854 {{USS|Constellation|1854|6}}, and is the oldest ship in the world that still sails regularly. Unlike many preserved or restored vessels, her hull, cabins and equipment are nearly 100% original.

[[File:Star of India stern 1.JPG|thumb|right|''Star of India'' stern and [[Taffrail]]]]

== Home port ==

''Star of India'' is docked at the [[Maritime Museum of San Diego]], just south of [[San Diego International Airport]], on the west side of North Harbor Drive at approximately Ash Street – all within the [[Port of San Diego]] tidelands. This location is slightly west of downtown San Diego, California. The other ships belonging to the Maritime Museum are always docked to the north of ''Star of India''. Her nearest neighbour – since 2007 – is {{HMS|Surprise|replica ship|6}} (a.k.a. HMS ''Rose''), a replica of a British [[frigate]].

When she sails, ''Star of India'' often remains within sight of the coast of San Diego County, and usually returns to her dock within a day. She is sailed by a skilled volunteer crew of Maritime Museum members, who train all year. She has become one of the landmark ships in San Diego's harbor.

From August to September 2009, ''Star of India'' was removed from display to a local drydock facility for a required Coast Guard inspection and various maintenance below the waterline, at a cost of approximately $225,000, and 3–4 weeks off display.

Her most recent voyage was on November 12, 2023.

== Appearances in media ==
''Star of India'' has appeared in episodes of:
* [[List of Dirty Jobs episodes#Season 4 (2008–09)|''Dirty Jobs'']] Season Four, Episode 89, "Tar Rigger"
* [[List of Ghost Hunters episodes#Season 4 (2008)|''Ghost Hunters'']] Season Four, Episode 426, "Spirits on the Water".
* ''[[Great Ships]]'' episode "The Windjammers".
* [[Haunted History (1998 TV series)#Season One (1999-2000)|''Haunted History'']] Season One, Episode 3, "Haunted Ships"
* At the 2013 [[San Diego Comic-Con]], [[Ubisoft]] used the ship to promote their new game ''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' and renamed the ship for 3 days after the in-game ship ''The Jackdaw''.
* [[List of Ghost Adventures episodes#Season 12 (2016)|''Ghost Adventures'']] Season 12, Episode 6 "Star of India"
* [[There Goes a...|There Goes a Boat]], episode 7 of the Real Wheels children's series.

==References==

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;Bibliography
*''Star of India: The Log of an Iron Ship'' by Jerry MacMullen (1979, Maritime Museum Association of San Diego) {{ISBN|0-8310-7027-7}} (pbk, first printed 1961)
*''Euterpe: Diaries, Letters and Logs of the "Star of India" as a British Emigrant Ship'' by Craig Arnold (1988, Maritime Museum Association of San Diego) {{ISBN|0-944580-06-8}} (pbk)

==External links==
{{Commons category|IMO 8640337}}
* [http://www.sdmaritime.org/star-of-india/ ''Star of India''] from Maritime Museum of San Diego
* [http://gothere.com/sandiego/Ghosts/Star_of_India/ ''Star of India''] from San Diego Ghosts - several pictures of the ship - inside views
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190523211614/http://www.goldenstateimages.com/starofindia.htm Star of India]'' from Golden State Images - more ship views
* [http://www.mightyseas.co.uk/marhist/manx/euterpe.htm Euterpe] from Through Mighty Seas

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