BALCLUTHA - A CAPE HORNER OF THE'80s
Built in Scotland in 1886, BALCLUTHA spent her
tirst 13 years as a deep water trader - to Auckland,
Capetown, Callao—
Crocut a pe Horn 7 times, she catried coal trom
Cardiff, whiskey from London, guano from Iquique.
Renamed STAR OF ALASKA in 1906, she then
spent 25 years carrying cannery workers north to
the Chignik cannery and salmon back to San Fran-
cisco for the Alaska Packers Association. In 1954
in deteriorated condition after 20 years as a carni-
val ship, the san Francisco Maritime Museum bought
in which labor unions
gave 13,000 hours of free
ooo hours a fee time and business nioms
donated over $100,000 in supplies, restored her as a
floating museum.
The public may now board the
BALCLUTHA at
Pier 43.
U.S.A.
Karl Kortum photo
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MIKE ROBERTS
BERKELEY 94710
---- At ESG HQ, we always try to use as much recycled packaging and packing materials as possible ---- Thanks for looking!
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