Star of India (ship)
Iron-hulled sailing ship from 1863, still under sail as the world's oldest active windjammer.
The Star of India was launched in 1863 under the name Euterpe, one of the first iron-hulled ships built by a small yard on the Isle of Man betting that iron could outlast wood. The guide follows her disastrous start: a collision off Wales on her maiden voyage that sent seventeen crewmen to jail for mutiny, and a Bay of Bengal cyclone that forced her own crew to cut away her masts just to survive. From there she carried emigrants from Britain to New Zealand for twenty five years, circling the globe more than twenty times before a new name and a new trade hauling Alaskan salmon. Run your hand along the riveted iron plates and picture the shipwrights in Ramsey who were not sure this hull would float at all.
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