Star of India: The Log of an Iron Ship, Jerry MacMullen's 1957 institutional history from the Maritime Museum Association of San Diego, by the San Diego waterfront reporter who led the 1926 purchase and restoration of the ship, documents her 1863 launch at Ramsey, Isle of Man, as the Euterpe, her India and New Zealand trading voyages, her 1906 renaming to Star of India under the Alaska Packers fleet, and her preservation as a museum vessel. Its strength is that it is held in the Maritime Museum of San Diego's own archive, by the man who led the ship's own restoration. Its limit is that it is an institutional history pamphlet rather than a peer reviewed maritime history monograph; a contested claim about the ship's early trading voyages should also be checked against the museum's fuller archival collection.
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Tier one: an institutional history held in the Maritime Museum of San Diego's own archive, written by the waterfront reporter who led the ship's 1926 restoration. Its limit is that it is an institutional history pamphlet rather than a peer reviewed maritime history monograph; a contested claim about the ship's early trading voyages should also be checked against the museum's fuller archival collection. NotesBy the San Diego waterfront reporter who led the 1926 purchase and restoration of the ship, documenting her 1863 launch at Ramsey, Isle of Man, as the Euterpe, her India and New Zealand trading voyages, her 1906 renaming to Star of India under the Alaska Packers fleet, and her preservation as a museum vessel; held in the Maritime Museum of San Diego's own MacMullen Library and Research Archives. Squarely the fact's own subject, this one vessel's ownership and renaming history.
Citation
AuthorJerry MacMullen
PublisherMaritime Museum Association of San Diego
Publication Year1957
URLhttps://sdmaritime.org/library-and-research/library-and-archives/euterpe-star-of-india-original-documents-collection/
Source TypeInstitutional
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This source names Euterpe directly: "launch at Ramsey, Isle of Man, as the Euterpe, her India and New Zealand trading voyages, her 1906 renaming to Star of India under the Alaska Packers fleet, and her preservation as a museum vessel."
This source names India directly: "Star of India: The Log of an Iron Ship, Jerry MacMullen's 1957 institutional history from the Maritime Museum Association of San Diego, by the San Diego waterfront reporter who led the 1926 purchase..."
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