Star of the East

A wooden full-rigged ship built in 1853 by W. & R. Wright, St John, New Brunswick. Dimensions ___×__×__ meters [206'0"×40'10"×22'0"] and 1219 tons.

1853: Launched at the shipyard of W. & R. Wright, St John, New Brunswick.
1853: Sold to James Beazley, Liverpool, for £ 16.000 and had her fitted out as a passenger ship at a cost of £ 6681.
1853 July 7 - September 23: Sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne in 78 days.
1853: Sailed from Shanghai to Liverpool with a cargo of tea in 107 days or 104 days from Woosung.
1854 July 6 - September 21: Sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne in 77 days.
1854: Sailed from Shanghai to London with a cargo of tea in 105 days.
1861 January 11: Left Bombay for Liverpool but stranded 30 miles west of Cape Infanta, South Africa.
1861 April 12: Wrecked in the Storring Bay, South Africa.

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Updated 1999-06-14 by Lars Bruzelius