Falls of Clyde
Next we went down to Honolulu Harbor, had lunch at a nice restaurant, and then walked along the harbor. We toured the Maritime Museum, as well as the Falls of Clyde, claimed to be the only surviving fully-rigged, four-masted sailing ship left in the world.
The Falls of Clyde was built for general cargo use in 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland, and sailed to many places around the world, including Australia, California, and India. After about twenty years under the British flag, she sailed under the Hawaiian flag between San Francisco and Honolulu. In 1907 the Falls of Clyde was purchased by the Anglo-American Oil Company and sailed between Honolulu and Santa Barbara under the American flag. After World War I she sailed to Denmark, and then made her last voyage under sail to Brazil in 1921. Sans rigging, she was next used as an oil barge at Ketchikan Harbor, Alaska until 1959. In 1963 she was slated to be sunk as part of a breakwater in Vancouver, British Columbia, but funds were raised to buy the Falls of Clyde and transfer her to Honolulu. The grandson of the original builder, Sir William Lithgow, donated masts, fittings, and expertise in re-rigging the Falls of Clyde in her original fashion.
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