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The Star of India which resides in the San Diego Harbor is the oldest ship still inn use. She was built in 1863 at the Ramsey Shipyards on the Isle of Man. The Star of India is an iron ship rather than a wooden ship and when she was built iron ships were still experimental. Her early life, lived under the name Euterpe, the Greek goddess of music, was very rough and included a mutiny, a cyclone, and a collision. She survived these calamities and went on to circumnavigate the globe more than 21 times. In 1898 Euterpe was sold to American owners and began sailing from Oakland, CA. In 1906 her owners the Alsaka Packers changed her name to Star of India, a standard company practice. By 1926 with sailing ships unable to keep up with steamships the Star of India was set to be destroyed. A group of San Diego residents led by reporter Jerry MacMullen raised $9,000 to buy the Star of India and bring her to San Diego. After a period of deterioration during the depression money and volunteers came together to restore the Star of India and in 1976 she was sailing once more. The Star is now sailed at least once a year and is maintained by a volunteer crew who work to keep not only the ship, but the necessary sailing skills alive for generation to come.
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