The iron full rigged ship Star of Greece was one of a splendid series of vessels built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for J.P. Corry & Co. Of all the ships engaged in the Calcutta Jute trade, Star of Greece and her sister Star of Persia were probably the finest as well as the fastest, with Star of Greece becoming the most famous of them all under her celebrated captain W.J.M. Shaw. Launched in 1868, Star of Greece was registered at 1,227 tons, measured 227 feet in length and, when fully laden, could carry in excess of 8,500 bales of raw jute. Achieving effortless record passages for ten years, she then turned to other routes, mostly Australian, when the Calcutta trade was slack and even did one North Atlantic run in 1879. Clearing Adelaide for home on 12 July 1888, she was driven ashore in a heavy gale and wrecked at Willanga the following day with the loss of most of her crew and also her master.