Built of iron when most ships were built of wood. She’s sailed around the world 21 times, seen mutinies, burials at sea, and survived a cyclone in the Sea of Bengal. Brought immigrants to New Zealand and did the England to India run in her early years. While the United States fought a civil war in 1863, construction started on the Star of India off the Irish coast at the Isle of Man. Over a century later she still floats.

After years of admiring this ship from shore and even touring her once, she set sail before my eyes with an all-volunteer crew. These photos taken in the 2000s or early 2010s.