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Take a look at this lady
Greetings,
Isn't she a beautiful lady? Makes me wish I could work on her.
This is some of the history of her.
Star of India was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron ship in Ramsey, Isle of Man. After a full career sailing between Great Britain and India, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route. After retirement, she was restored and is now a seaworthy museum ship ported in San Diego. The ship was designated a National Historic Landmark.
As Euterpe
Named for Euterpe, the muse of music, she was a full-rigged (a ship that has 3 masts and squaresails on all 3 masts) iron ship built in 1863 by Gibson, McDonald & Arnold, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, British Isles, for the Indian jute trade of Wakefield Nash & Company of Liverpool. She was launched on November 14, 1863, assigned British Registration No.47617, and signal VPJK.
Euterpe's career had a rough beginning. She sailed for Calcutta from Liverpool on January 9, 1864, under the command of Captain William John Storry. A collision with a Spanish brig off the coast of Wales carried away the jib-boom and she returned to Anglesey to repair. During the repairs the crew became mutinous and had to be confined to the Beaumaris Gaol. Then, in 1865, Euterpe was dismasted in a gale in the Bay of Bengal off Madras and had to be repaired at Trincomalee. Captain Storry died during the return voyage to England and was buried at sea.
Euterpe made four more relative uneventful voyages to India, then, in 1867, was sold, first to David Brown of London to be used in the India and South America trade, but then again in 1871 to Shaw, Savill & Company of London. In 1873 she began thirty years of carrying passengers and freight on the New Zealand trade. The fastest of these voyages took 100 days, the longest was 143 days. She also made ports of call in Australia, California, and Chile. A baby was even born on one of those trips en route to New Zealand. The baby was given the middle name Euterpe.
In 1897, after 21 round trips, Euterpe was sold, first to Hawaiian owners, then in 1899 to the Pacific Colonial Ship Company of San Francisco, California. She was registered in the United States on October 30, 1900.
[edit] As Star of India
The Star of India docked in San Diego, California.
The Star of India Bow On docked in San Diego, California.In 1901, Euterpe was sold to the Alaska Packers' Association of San Francisco, who re-rigged her as a barque and in 1902 began sailing each spring from Oakland, California to the Bering Sea, returning each fall 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; by that time, steam ruled the seas.
In 1926, Star of India was sold to the Zoological Society of San Diego, to be the centerpiece of a planned museum and aquarium. The Great Depression and World War II caused that plan to be canceled; it wasn't until 1957 that her restoration began. Alan Villiers, a windjammer captain and author, came to San Diego on a lecture tour. Seeing Star 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 put to sea again. She currently houses exhibits for the Maritime Museum of San Diego, and sails at least once a year. The Star of India is the second-oldest ship afloat, after the USS Constitution. The older ship makes only brief expeditions from its dock and is incapabale of sailing under her own power in the open ocean, so the Star of India is considered the oldest active sailing ship in the world.
Displacement:
1197 tons gross, 1107 tons under deck (as Euterpe)
1318 tons gross, 1247 tons net (as Star of India)
Length: 62.5 m (205 ft 5 in)
Beam: 10.7 m (35 ft 2 in)
Height:
Full-rigged: 7.1 m (23 ft 4 in)
Barque rig: 6.5 m (21 ft 6 in)
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Euterpe is absolutely gorgeous! I love her black hull w/red waterline and white bulkhead and sails. She's diffinately a British sailing vessel at that. 
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Greetings,
Most definately. Love seeing lovely ladies like that. Makes me wish I had not been found out in the Navy and was on a boat of some kind sailing the ocean and seeing the world. Thanks for listening. TTYL, Laters.
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very very nice ship.. i loved it..
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Cool. I love seeing lovely ladies like that. Don't you wish you could work on her? Thanks for listening. TTYL, Laters.
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I think that I may have been aboard the above beautiful lady of a sailing vessel, when she was down anchored to a pier over in San Diego, CA. Infact, I have a picture of me (Lights has seen it) standing on her starboard side.
Anchored infront of her, was a modern-day Naval Hospital Ship, my late present life mother showed more than a passing interest in.
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Greetings,
Cool. If you can ever show the pic of you on her, I would love to see it. I just love looking at sailing ships like that. I would kill to be able to go sailing on those kind of ships. Thanks for listening. TTYL, Laters.
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awww robert you aer a sucker for anything with a bow and stern
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Greetings,
I admit to it. Why do you think in my spare time, I build  in blueprint form atleast? Why do you think I hope to build my beloved Áine hua Murchada. I mean the first thought in the morning and the last thought before I go to sleep is about a ship of some kind. It is bad when you stay until 4 am to watch super  s and it starts at like 2 am. When I told you that I was fully prepared to put 20 years in the Navy, I really meant it. Even at school, I talk about like as if my life depends on them. Can you say that have me hook, line, and sinker? lol. Thanks for listening. TTYL, Laters.
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AAAAAAOWWWWOOOOO! Wotta babe! I have the same "bow and stern" disease you have and Will, would he but admit it, has as well. She is GORGEOUS! Makes me wish I could be at sea again on a square-rigger! Ah, well, maybe one day...*sigh*
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