Star of India Mainsails
by Gabriele Pomykaj
Title
Star of India Mainsails
Artist
Gabriele Pomykaj
Medium
Photograph
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Star of India Mainsails.
Today, the Star of India shares her story with hundreds of interested tourists daily. She stands as the centerpiece to San Diego’s Maritime Museum and proudly flies her restful sails in the southern California sunshine.
Star Of India, the world's oldest active sailing ship, is a seaworthy museum ship, a full-rigged iron windjammer. She is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark, home-ported at the Maritime Museum of San Diego in San Diego, California. Built in 1863 at Ramsey in the Isle of Man as Euterpe, named after the Greek muse of music and poetry, sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route. Retired in 1926, then restored 1962-63, she currently houses exhibits for the Maritime Museum of San Diego, is kept fully seaworthy, and sails at least once a year by a volunteer crew.
Photography by Gabriele Pomykaj. All rights reserved
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September 6th, 2017
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