SAILING SHIPS GO

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 15

SAILING SHIPS GO

News has been received that the Alaska Packing Company has sold four of its big sailing vessel to Japan to be scrapped. The vessels disposed of are the Star of Holland, Star of Lapland, Star of Shetland, and Star of Zealand. These fine old vessels have all been seen in Australian waters before they were purchased by the Alaska Packing Co. The Star of Holland is a vessel of 1965 tons, and was built by Harland and Wolft and was first known as the Zeminder, then the Otto Gildemeister, then Homeward Bound. The Star of Lapland, 3006 tons, was the Standard Oil Co.'s sailer Atlas. The Star of Shetland, 2850 tons, was the big American four-masted barque Edward Sewall. The Star of Zealand, 2987 tons, was also another of the Standard Oil Co.'s vessels, and was originally known as the Astral. These last three vessels were all built by A. Sewall and Co., Bath, Me. Another well-known sailer, the Dunsyre, 2014 tons register, which was built at Glasgow in 1891 and has been tied up for some years in one of the Pacific Coast parts, has been sold to the Island Tug and Barge Co., of Victoria (8.C.), and will be used as a barge. The Dunsyre was for many years a constant trader to Sydney and Newcastle. The Dunsyre was a beautiful full-rigged ship with painted ports, and made many smart passages from Eureka and San Francisco to Sydney.