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Star of India was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron ship. After a full career, Euterpe was purchased in 1901 by the Alaska Packers Association , who rerigged her as a barque. In 1902, she began sailing from Oakland, California to the Bering Sea each spring, 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 Euterpe became Star of India.
After eleven years, she was laid up in 1923, and in 1926, was sold to the Zoological Society of San Diego, California, to be the centerpiece of a planned museum and aquarium. However, the Great DepressionThe Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in the United States following Black Thursday, the Wall Street panic of October 1929. On October 24, 1929, share prices on Wall Street collapsed catastrophically, setting off a chain of bankruptc and World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough caused that plan to be canceled; it wasn't until 1957Events January January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge. January 3 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published January 5 Russell Endean becomes t 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 1959Events January-February January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Bac to support the restoration of the ship. Progress was still slow, but in 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s, Star of India put to sea again.
Primarily a museum shipA museum ship or sometimes memorial ship is an old ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public. There are several hundred of these around the world, often associated with maritime museums. Despite the long history of sea tr, the Star of India is the world's oldest ship that is still sea-worthy.