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Built as the four-masted ship Kenilworth in 1887 and originally owned by Williamson &
Milligan of Liverpool. In 1889 she was sold to E. & A. Sewall of New York, then bought
by the Alaska Packers Association in 1908 and re-named Star of Scotland. In 1930 the
ship was sold for a fishing barge at Redondo Beach, California. With the Alaska Packers,
she sailed for 22 years with the "Great Star Fleet" to Alaskan waters for the salmon fishery.
These ships and their crews would load both fisherman and cannery
workers in San Francisco, delivering them to the salmon-rich waters and the canneries of Alaska.
At the end of the summer season, all hands would reboard, the packed salmon would be loaded,
and the fleet would return to San Francisco. Star of Scotland is shown on a chart of Unimak
Pass, though with the ships would pass to reach the Bering Sea.
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