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About Astral
Astral was a steel-hulled shipentine built for Standard Oil in 1900 to carry kerosene between the Eastern US Coast and East Asia. The ship performed eight uneventful voyages for Standard Oil between 1902 and 1910. That year, she was sold to Alaska Packers' Association and renamed Star of Zealand and used to supply a network of fish canneries in Alaska before she was laid up in 1929 along with most of the fleet. Following the Great Depression, the ship was sold off to a Japanese company in 1934 and renamed Star of Zealand Maru. The next year, she was broken up for her steel hull in Japan.
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