Maritime Museum of San Diego

This guide to the Maritime Museum of San Diego follows the iron-hulled ship built in eighteen sixty-three on the Isle of Man for an outrageous sum, launched as the Euterpe, and nearly destroyed on her first voyage by a nighttime collision and a mutinous crew. You'll hear how she survived a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal and more than twenty circumnavigations hauling emigrant families to New Zealand, then was stripped down and renamed Star of India for a new life hauling fishermen to Alaska. It traces her slide toward the scrapyard in the nineteen twenties and the San Diego newspaperman who refused to let that happen. Run your hand along the hull and feel the same iron that was once priced by the pound.