Maritime Museum in San Diego



My family and I are in San Diego for my son's graduation from Marine bootcamp on Oct 12. We had a little bit of time to explore the city and the best place to explore, I thought, is the Maritime Museum in Harbor Dr. You can explore 4 or 5 historic ships for the price of 1.. Aboard Steam Ferry Berkely are original paintings and collections of Capt. Cook, Melville, and Gauguin from their exploration around the world. I took a lot of pictures and posed at some of the original exibhits of Cook, Melville, and Gauguin until someone told me I'm not suppose to because the camera flash can supposedly damage the displays?! Oppss! I did not see the sign at first, but I stop, of course. We also explored the Star of India who use to be called Euterpe, name after the Greek muse of music and poetry. The Star of India sail from England to India to carry goods. She did not start her career as a passenger ship until 1879 and did that for 25 years. She carries families of immigrants bound mostly for New Zealand but also made trips to, Chili, Australia, and California. Below are pictures of our adventure in the maritime museum. It was a pretty awesome experience!



Original Naval suit of Capt. Cook.



These are the collections of weapons from Polynesia



This is a painting of HMS resolution



The top photograghs are part of collections exhibited in the museum. The two people are King and Prince of Tahiti

   


My last pose is with a wooden carving of a native tahitian before I got Busted for taking Pics!



  









She became an "American" ship by Act of Congress

 Star of India is the world's oldest active sailing ship. She began her life on the stocks at Ramsey Shipyard in the Isle of Man in 1863. Iron ships were experiments of sorts then, with most vessels still being built of wood. Within five months of laying her keel, the ship was launched into her element. She bore the name Euterpe, afteGreek muse of  music and poetry.

 

We are dressed to look like an immigrant? :-)



 



The life aboard Star of India was especially hard on the emigrants cooped up in thier 'tween deck, fed a diet of hardtack and salt junk, subject to mal-de-mer and a host of other ills. It is astonishing that their death rate was so low. They were a tough lot, however, drawn from the working classes of England, Ireland and Scotland, and most went on to prosper in New Zealand.









That's my daughter Margaret. She thinks the immigrant hat is so cool that she just have to try it on with a style, of course :-)

beside Margaret is one of the entry in Rev. Henry Barnet's diary while aboard Star of India

 



The Girls decided to see how it feels like sleeping where the immigrants use to sleep