During thirteen years under the British flag, Balclutha called
at San Francisco five times, bringing coal and general cargo
from Europe and returning with California grain.  Balclutha is a
cargo ship, one of thousands of iron and steel sailing vessels
built in Great Britain and Europe beginning in the 1860s.   The
Star of Alaska, formerly Balclutha under sail off San Francisco
in the 1920s.   Captain Alfred Durkee, Master 1894-1899  choose
a vessel