Star Of India 20"

Item  #  Star Of India-20

Star Of India 20"
 
  • Overall dimensions 20" Long x 4" Wide x 17" High.  2 Lbs.
  • This is a fully assembled model, no assembly needed.
  • Our Star of India boat model is built with rare, high quality woods such as ebony, jackwood, sycamore, blackwood, and mahogany. 
  • Deck Details include:
    • Wooden hull, Two metal anchors with a chain on the bow of the boat, American flag, the name “Star of India” painted on the front side and stern of the boat, thick white sails.
  • Our model boats have masterfully stitched, thick canvas sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle.
  • These tall ship models of the Star of India are meticulously painted to the actual wooden model ship.
  • The Star of India model boat rests perfectly on a wooden base.
  • To build this ship model, extensive research was done using various sources such as the original plans, drawings, paintings and pictures.
 
Star of India was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship in Ramsey, Isle of Man. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India then to New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska then to California route. After retirement in 1926, she was restored between 1962 and 1963 and is now a seaworthy museum ship ported at the San Diego Maritime Museum in San Diego, United States. She is the oldest ship that still sails regularly and the oldest iron hulled merchant ship still floating. The ship is both a California and United States National Historic Landmark
 
Named for Euterpe, the muse of music, she was a full-rigged ship (a ship that has 3 masts and square sails on all 3 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. She was launched on November 14, 1863, and assigned British Registration No.47617 and signal VPJK.
     
     
 Star Of India 20" $89.95
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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