[1] Starlight is better remembered today as the subject of two paintings by artist Fitz Hugh Lane.

[1] Starlight was described as having "spacious staterooms" and a figurehead resembling "the representation of an antediluvian bird of Paradise spliced into a mermaid".

Starlight also served in the Asia and British trade, and carried horses from Adelaide, Australia, to Calcutta, India in 1862.

The two ships arrived in Boston within twelve hours of each other, having sighted each other three times en route.

Starlight's name was changed to R. Protolongo or Proto Longo in 1864 after she entered the coolie trade, transporting Chinese workers to work in the guano fields of Peru.