As given in Watercraft Philately Volume 30 no 3 page 29 there were three ships with the name STAR OF INDIA around 1860/63, one built in New Brunswick, Canada in 1861 of 1,697 ton and owned in 1862 by W&R Wright of Liverpool. One built in 1861 in Dundee, Scotland and the one which is now a museum ship in San Diego what was built in 1863. Thanks to our member ptvisnes who was bringing this up I did some research in the vessels.
When I looked around on the internet many sites mixing this vessels up but the 1863 ship never has been sailing to Australia and New Zealand under the name STAR OF INDIA but carried the name EUTERPE as a emigrant ship, she was in 1906 renamed in STAR OF INDIA and used by Alaska Packers Association of San Francisco and sailed between Alaska and Oakland USA.
The New Brunswick STAR OF INDIA carried also for the White Star Line of Australian Packets emigrants to Australia and New Zealand, her first voyage was when she sailed on 23 December 1862 under command of Captain P. Buchan from Liverpool with cargo and passengers to Australia, but of her I can’t find a painting or photo.
The vessel depict on the Penrhyn and Grenada and Grenada Grenadines stamps is STAR OF INDIA of 1861,a Blackwall frigate, which was used in the emigrant trade and with mostly wool as return cargo.
The Dundee built ship was built as a wooden ship under yard no 25 by Alexander Stephen, Dundee for Joseph Somes, London.
July 1861 launched as the STAR OF INDIA.
Tonnage 1,102 grt, 1,040 nrt, dim. 58.03 x 10.42 x 6.73m.
Ship rigged.
She was built for the trade between the U.K and India, and to discourage pirates she had painted gun-ports to imitate a British warship..
1861 Under command of Captain H. Morris from Dundee to Calcutta.
1866 Lloyds give as owner, Merchant Shipping Company, London.
When the Suez Canal was opened in 1869 it was the end of the passenger trade from the sailing ships between the U.K and India, she were replaced by steam vessels.
The sail vessels were thereafter mostly used in the emigrant trade to Australia and New Zealand and also the STAR OF INDIA.
First she made voyages to Australia, she made also two voyages with emigrants to New Zealand.
23 September 1873 she sailed from London to Lyttelton, New Zealand in 97 days. She assisted the ISABELLA KERR in the South Atlantic near Cape of Good Hope she was on fire. Provision and medicines were given. STAR OF INDIA arrived Lyttelton 01 January 1874.
In 1874 she made another voyage from London to Wellington in 102 days.
Circa 1885 was she sold to H.C.A. Michelsen Co, Sandefjord, Norway not renamed. Under command of Captain Michelsen.
Re-rigged in a barque and used in the transatlantic lumber trade.
On a voyage from Pensacola USA to London with sawn timber she was abandoned by the crew on 22 January 1893.
The floating wreck was sighted later south of the Equator by the barque CRIFFEL on a voyage from Cardiff to Iquique.
Source. Lloyds Registers. http://www.bruzelius.infp/Nautica/Ships/Merchant various web-sites
Penrhyn
1981. 4c. Mi 183, SG 176, Scott 140
1981. 30c. Mi 203, SG 196, Scott 160
1983. 36c on 30c. Mi 331, SG 309, Scott 242
1984. 50c. Mi 379, SG 347, Scott 278
Grenada
1996. $1. Mi 3223, SG 3146, Scott 2560i
Grenada Grenadines
1998. 75c. Mi 2762, SG 2529. Scott 2013
STAR OF INDIA 1861
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Re: STAR OF INDIA 1861
From Mr. David Asprey I got the following:
I have been editing the Scottish-Built Ships page on STAR OF INDIA, built at Dundee in 1861.
http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=55086
Your page has been helpful in filling one or two gaps. But I do think that the ending is not quite right:
Nobody knows where the barque was abandoned - the date 22/1/1893 refers to the first sighting of the aban doned and waterlogged vessel, by the ship RAVENSCRAIG. The odd thing is that the reported lat/long does not match the description given "in the track of ships between Fayal and Flores Island". It is much too far north for that. I suspect it was meant to be "in the track of ships [from N Europe] to Fayal or Flores Island"
The second sighting (by the barque CRIFFEL) was only about three weeks later and was certainly not south of the equator. It was consistent with a slow eastwards drift from the earlier position, towards Portugal.
I have been editing the Scottish-Built Ships page on STAR OF INDIA, built at Dundee in 1861.
http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=55086
Your page has been helpful in filling one or two gaps. But I do think that the ending is not quite right:
Nobody knows where the barque was abandoned - the date 22/1/1893 refers to the first sighting of the aban doned and waterlogged vessel, by the ship RAVENSCRAIG. The odd thing is that the reported lat/long does not match the description given "in the track of ships between Fayal and Flores Island". It is much too far north for that. I suspect it was meant to be "in the track of ships [from N Europe] to Fayal or Flores Island"
The second sighting (by the barque CRIFFEL) was only about three weeks later and was certainly not south of the equator. It was consistent with a slow eastwards drift from the earlier position, towards Portugal.
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