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
Star of India docked in San Diego
Euterpe at Port Chalmers, the port of Dunedin, in 1883
Star of India docked in San Diego
Star of India stern and Taffrail
Iron-hulled sailing ships represented the final evolution of sailing ships at the end of the Age of Sail. They were built to carry bulk cargo for long distances in the nineteenth and early twentieth c
Star of India (ship)
…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…
Four-masted, iron-hulled barque Herzogin Cecilie
Diagram of rigging and sails on a full-rigged ship, ca. 1905
Crew of the ship Garthsnaid at sea, ca. 1920, securing a section of the foresail.
The largest sailing ship to survive, the four-masted barque Moshulu at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States