Lurline

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Lurline is a poetic variation of the name of the legendary Rhine river siren Loreley. Lurline is the title of a poem by Henry Kendall (1841-1882), Australian poet:

...Which flashed like a light in the tropical skies --
And ah! the bright thoughts that would sparkle and rise...^[1]

In 1860, William Vincent Wallace wrote an opera named Lurline.

Queen Lurline is a fictional character in the Oz books by L. Frank Baum and other authors, first appearing in 1918 in The Tin Woodman of Oz.

[edit] Ships named Lurline

• 1873 a 23-ton coastal schooner of New Zealand.
• 1877 a 761-ton barque that plied New Zealand waters.
• 1878 a a steamboat on the Columbia River until about 1930.
• 1883 a clipper-built 88-foot, 389-ton schooner yacht owned by Claus Spreckels then sold to the South Coast Yacht Club in 1904, winning the Transpacific Yacht Race in 1906, 1908 and 1912, each time she entered.^[2]
• 1887 a 150-foot brigantine made for Spreckels who sold immediately 75% to William Matson as an expansion of Matson Lines. They resold the vessel in 1896. The brig was lost in 1915.
• 1888 a 79-foot wooden steam cargo yacht wrecked in Lake Huron while entering the harbour at Goderich, Ontario during a storm in 1907.
• 1896 a spritsail barge that worked the Thames for 30 years or more.
• 1908 a steamship built for Matson Lines, sold in 1928 to Alaska Packers' Association, reflagged Yugoslavian (and renamed Radnik) in 1948 and finally scrapped in 1953.
• 1932: SS Lurline, a Matson luxury ocean liner, renamed Ellinis by Chandris Lines in September 1963, scrapped in 1987.
• 1963 Matson refurbished the former SS Monterey and renamed her Lurline until 1970.
• 1973 a Matson ro-ro freighter.