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Wooden Star of India Tall Model Ship 24"

Overall Dims: 24" L x 4" W x 17" H

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Wooden Star of India Tall Model Ship 24"

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Ready for Immediate Display - Not a Model Ship kit 

This fine tall ships model of the famous clipper ship Star of India is perfectly sized for any small shelf, desk or mantle. Renowned for her speed and endurance sailing the open seas of the Indian Ocean, Atlantic and Pacific Coast of America, these proud model tall ships of the Star of India will add a touch of history and adventurous spirit to a child’s bedroom, a flair of nautical décor to a den or living room, or an indomitable winning air to any office or boardroom. 

20" Long x 4" Wide x 17" High (1:168 scale)

  • Arrives fully assembled with all sails mounted
  • Handcrafted wooden hull and masts
  • High quality woods include cherry, birch, maple and rosewood
  • 20 handsewn white cloth sails
  • 2 anchors with metal chain attached
  • Metal nameplate on wooden base identifies the ship as the Star of India
WARNING WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Formaldehyde, and Styrene, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer, and Chromium and Toluene, which are known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov

Larger Star of India Model Tall Ships Available

Star of India Limited Tall Model Ship 50"

50” Star of India Tall Ships Model includes:
    • 1:105 Scale (50" long x 12" wide x 28" high)
      • 150% larger than 20” tall ship models
    • Accurate scale replica tall ships models of the real Star of India
      • Historically correct sails
      • Extensive rigging with varying thread gauge and color
      • Correct lifeboat numbers and placement
      • Numerous deck and hull features include accurate scale deckhouses, improved anchors, cargo grates and more
    • Museum Quality features not available in other tall ship models under $3,000 or any kit
    • Increased details and features
      • 500% more rigging than 20” model tall ships
      • Additional deck and hull details, such as painted railings, capstans and other deck features, improved deckhouses plus much more
      • Removable from separate base
    • Plank on frame hull rather than solid wood block
    • Higher quality woods utilized in construction
Star of India Limited Tall Model Ship 50

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.

As Euterpe

Named for Euterpe, the muse of music, she was a full-rigged ship (a ship that has 3 masts and squaresails 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.

Euterpe's career had a rough beginning. She sailed for Calcutta from Liverpool on January 9, 1864, under the command of Captain William John Storry. A collision with an unlighted, hit-and-run Spanish brig off the coast of Wales carried away the jib-boom and damaged other rigging. The crew became mutinous, refusing to continue, and she returned to Anglesey to repair; 17 of the crew were confined to the Beaumaris Jail at hard labor. Then, in 1865, Euterpe was forced to cut away her masts in a gale in the Bay of Bengal off Madras and limped to Trincomalee and Calcutta for repair. Captain Storry died during the return voyage to England and was buried at sea.

After her near-disastrous first two voyages Euterpe was sold, first in 1871 to David Brown of London for whom she made four more relatively uneventful voyages to India, then again (displaced by steamers after the opening of the Suez Canal) in 1871 to Shaw, Savill & Company of London. In late 1871 she began twenty-five years of carrying passengers and freight in the New Zealand emigrant trade, each voyage going eastward around the world before returning to England. The fastest of her 21 passages to New Zealand took 100 days, the longest 143 days. She also made ports of call in Australia, California, and Chile. A baby was born on one of those trips en route to New Zealand, and was given the middle name Euterpe.

In 1897, after 21 round-the-world trips, Euterpe was sold, first to Hawaiian owners, then in 1899 to the Pacific Colonial Ship Company of San Francisco, California and from 1898 to 1901 made four voyages between the Pacific Northwest, Australia and Hawaii carrying primarily lumber, coal and sugar. She was registered in the United States on October 30, 1900

As Star of India

 

In 1901, Euterpe was sold to the Alaska Packers' Association of San Francisco, who re-rigged her as a barque (converting the square-rigged aftermost mast to fore-and-aft) and in 1902 began carrying fishermen, cannery workers, coal and canning supplies each spring from Oakland, California to Nushagak in the Bering Sea, returning each fall with holds full of canned salmon. In 1906, the Association changed her name to be consistent with the rest of their fleet, and she became Star of India. She was laid up in 1923 after 22 Alaskan voyages; by that time, steam ruled the seas.

In 1926, Star of India was sold to the Zoological Society of San Diego, to be the centerpiece of a planned museum and aquarium. The Great Depression and World War II caused that plan to be canceled; it wasn't until 1957 that her restoration began. Alan Villiers, a windjammer captain and author, came to San Diego on a lecture tour. Seeing Star decaying in the harbor, he publicized the situation and inspired a group of citizens to form the "Star of India Auxiliary" in 1959 to support the restoration of the ship. Progress was still slow, but in 1976, Star of India finally put to sea again. She currently houses exhibits for the Maritime Museum of San Diego, is kept fully seaworthy, and sails at least once a year. With the many other ships now in the Museum, she hosts frequent docent-led school tours (over 6,000 children a year) and also a Living History Program in which students "step back in time" and are immersed in history and teamwork activities during overnight visits.

The 1863 Star of India is the fourth oldest ship afloat in the United States, after the 1797 USS Constitution, the 1841 Charles W Morgan, and 1854 USS Constellation, and is the oldest ship in the entire world that still sails regularly. Unlike many preserved or restored vessels, her hull, cabins and equipment are nearly 100% original.