Star of Falkland
Date
2008
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Texas Tech University Libraries
Abstract
Ship Name:Star of Falkland; Sailed: 1891-1928; Type: Steel 3 -masted ship; Built by: Port Glasgow, Scotland by William Hamilton & Co.; Dimensions: 276.8' x 42' x 23.2'; Tonnage: 2201 tons.
Description
Durbridge engaged in the London/Liverpool to San Francisco, Puget Sound, Astoria/Portland and Australia trades, crossing the Pacific several times with wool, coal, case oil, grain, nitrates, etc., for the Potter Brothers. In 1909 the Hamburg firm of Knohr and Burchard bought Durbridge and renamed the ship Steinbek. The Germans installed halyard winches and brace winches. The Germans kept Steinbek employed in bulk cargo trades. As World War I commenced in 1914, Steinbek was loading lumber in Puget Sound. The Hamburg firm felt that it was better if the German ship remained interned at Winslow, Washington than risk destruction on the high seas. Consequently, Steinbek languished at Winslow until the United States entered the war. Steinbek was confiscated as prize of war. The Unites States Shipping Board renamed the ship Northern Light, unrigged the vessel except for lower masts, and used it as a towed barge on the coast. Late in 1917, the ship was renamed Arapahoe and continued coastal barging being towed behind several powerful towboats. Re-rigged in 1918, Arapahoe went voyaging to Manila and to Europe. In 1922 Alaska Packers Association purchased Arapahoe and renamed it Star of Falkland. Beginning with the 1923 season, Star of Falkland annually sailed north to participate in the salmon canning season The Alaska Packers Association also modified the ship adding accommodation. In 1928, the ship struck Akun Island and became a total loss. The photograph 58a is of the holed ship stuck on the rocks.
Photograph 58b is utterly unrelated to 58a except that one is pasted to the back of the other. This photograph is of the three-masted steel bark Eros aground in the Pegu River of then Burma in the late 1920s. Built in Nantes 1891 as the Les Adelphes, in 1907 Les Adelphes was sold to A. P. Ulriksen of Norway and renamed Eros. In 1920 the ship changed hands to Swedish owners, then changed hands a couple more times in quick succession. Seized because of debt, the ship was eventually beached and left to rot (as we see in the photograph).
Keywords
Merchant Ships, Ships