A collision with an unlit Spanish brig off the coast of Wales carried away the jib-boom and damaged other rigging. She sailed for Calcutta from Liverpool on 9 January 1864, under the command of Captain William John Storry.

She was launched on 14 November 1863, and assigned British Registration No.47617 and signal VPJK.Įuterpe's career had a rough beginning. Named after Euterpe, the Greek muse of music, she was a full-rigged ship (a ship that is square-rigged on all three masts), built of iron in 1863 by Gibson, McDonald & Arnold, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, for the Indian jute trade of Wakefield Nash & Company of Liverpool. The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat. 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.

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. Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship Euterpe.

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