Captain Storry died during the return voyage to England and was buried at sea. Then, in 1865, Euterpe was forced to cut away her masts in a gale in the Bay of Bengal off Madras and limped to Trincomalee and Calcutta for repair. The crew became mutinous, refusing to continue, and she returned to Anglesey for repair 17 of the crew were confined to the Beaumaris Jail at hard labour. A collision with an unlit Spanish brig off the coast of Wales carried away the jib-boom and damaged other rigging. She sailed for Calcutta from Liverpool on 9 January 1864, under the command of Captain William John Storry. #Insidia ship registration#She was launched on 14 November 1863, and assigned British Registration No.47617 and signal VPJK.Įuterpe's career had a rough beginning. Named after Euterpe, the Greek muse of music, she was a full-rigged ship (a ship that is square-rigged on all three masts), built of iron in 1863 by Gibson, McDonald & Arnold, of Ramsey, Isle of Man, for the Indian jute trade of Wakefield Nash & Company of Liverpool. The ship is both a California Historical Landmark and United States National Historic Landmark. She is the oldest ship still sailing regularly and also the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship still afloat. 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. 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. Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man as the full-rigged ship, Euterpe. Strong winds (21+ mph) make sailing difficult.Ī severe wind (31+ mph) causes minor ship and building damage.Ī windstorm (51+ mph) drives most flying creatures from the skies, uproots small trees, knocks down light wooden structures, tears off roofs, and endangers ships. Each round on your turn, a creature in the wind must make a Fortitude save or suffer the effect of being in the windy area. Wind Strength: For every three caster levels, you can increase or decrease wind strength by one level.
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