STAR OF ZEALAND (ex-ASTRAL) from SHIPS, by Wilfred S. Stephenson with his text below. |
1910: While on a passage from New York to San Fran, she lost her three topgallant masts off Cape Horn in a gale of wind.
This year the vessel was purchased by Alaska Packers Assoc from the Standard Oil Co, for the salmon trade to Alaska and renamed STAR OF ZEALAND.
STAR OF ZEALAND, undated. Leaving the fishing grounds of Alaska. Original photo from the archives of the S.P.H.S.© |
1934: On 7 November, the STAR OF ZEALAND was sold to the Trans-Pacific Commercial Co of Los Angeles, CA, for Japanese interests, who in August 1935, sailed her to Japan to be scrapped. [photo on top.]"
Words from; Ships, A Collection of Marine Illustrations. Stephenson, W.S.,USN. Ben Kreis Agency, Vancouver, WA. 1947. Saltwater People library.
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