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 * The Balcutha was built in 1886. It is 256 feet. The ship sailed for 42 years.

*The Balclutha used to be called The star of Alaska because when the Balclutha got into a wreck, the insurance owned the ship. Then Alaska bought the ship and all of their ships are named the star of something. And now we all know it as the Balclutha which means, “City of the Clyde!”

*The Balclutha carried: Wine, spirits, lumber, salmon and coal.

* It was once used as a pirate ship!

Click Here to Learn About Captain/sailor facts: *Captain Alfred Durkees words: *No one who has not been there can’t imagine the stress of the captain in trying to get around Cape Horn this passage of the Balclutha was the hardest times.

*The captain had three spare bedrooms!

*The sailors only got one tiny chest for everything! main page