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
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
Architectural styleThree-masted bark
NRHP reference No.66000223
CHISL No.1030
Significant dates
Added to NRHP13 November 1966
Designated NHL13 November 1966

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. The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark.

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