Star of India (ship)

Star of India docked in San Diego
History
United Kingdom
Name
  • Euterpe (1863–1906)
  • Star of India (1906–)
BuilderGibson, McDonald & Arnold
Launched14 November 1863
In service1906
FateSold to the United States
United States
Acquired1906
IdentificationIMO number: 8640337
FateOperational museum ship
General characteristics
Tonnage
  • 1,197 tons gross, 1,107 tons under deck (Euterpe)
  • 1,318 tons gross, 1,247 tons net (Star of India)
Length
  • 62.5 m (205 ft) LWL
  • 84.8 m (278 ft) sparred length
Beam10.7 m (35 ft)
Height
  • To weather rail:
  • 7.1 m (23 ft) (full-rigged)
  • 6.5 m (21 ft) (barque rigged)
  • Deck to top of mast:38.8 m (127 ft)
Draft6.6 m (22 ft) (fully loaded)
Sail plan
Star of India
Euterpe at Port Chalmers, the port of Dunedin, in 1883
Star of India (ship) is located in California
Star of India (ship)
LocationSan Diego Embarcadero, San Diego, California
Coordinates32°43′13.5″N 117°10′24.7″W / 32.720417°N 117.173528°W / 32.720417; -117.173528
Built1863[3]
Architectural styleThree-masted bark
NRHP reference No.66000223[1]
CHISL No.1030[2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP13 November 1966
Designated NHL13 November 1966[3]

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.[4] The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark.[3][2][5]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 23 January 2007.
  2. ^ a b "California Historical Landmark: San Diego County". Office of Historic Preservation. California State Parks. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "Star of India (Bark)". National Historic Landmark Landmarks Program. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Step aboard the world's oldest active sailing ship". Maritime Museum of San Diego. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  5. ^ Snell, Charles (1965). "National Register of Historic Places - Inventory Nomination Form / Star of India" (pdf). National Park Service. Retrieved 20 May 2012. and
    "Accompanying Photos" (pdf). National Park Service. 1965. Retrieved 20 May 2012.