Tusitala on the Hudson River at West 156th Street, September 16, 1937. The Tusitala was the last full-rigged merchant ship to fly the American flag. Built in Scotland in 1883, she sailed under the flags of Scotland and Norway before being purchased by a group of writers and artists in New York City in the 1920s. The collective called themselves the “Three Hours for Lunch Club” and named their ship Tusitala in honor of Robert Lewis Stevenson, who had taken that name, meaning storyteller, from the Samoan language of his adopted home. Though one of the writers behind the purchase was a ships captain in addition to his literary career, the collective quickly ran out of funds to support the vessel. She was sold to James A Farrell,the President of U.S. Steel, who sailed the ship from New York to Hawaii via the Panama Canal through the 1930s. In 1939 she became training ship at a United States Maritime Services Training Center in Florida before being scrapped in 1947.