Model Ship Vintage Handcrafted Wooden STAR of INDIA 15” Model Ship San Diego CA

Description

Star of India
is an
iron-hulled sailing ship
, built in 1863 in
Ramsey, Isle of Man
as the
full-rigged ship
,
After a career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she was renamed, re-rigged as a
barque
, and became a
salmon
hauler
on the
Alaska
to
California
route. Retired in 1926, she was restored as a seaworthy
museum ship
in 1962–3 and home-ported at the
Maritime Museum of San Diego
in
San Diego, California
. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat.
The ship is both a
California Historical Landmark
and United States
National Historic Landmark
.