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Balclutha was a cargo ship, one of thousands of iron and steel sailing vessels built in Great Britain and Europe beginning in the 1860s. During thirteen years under the British flag, she called at San Francisco five times, bringing coal and general cargo from Europe and returning with California grain. From 1903 to 1930, renamed Star of Alaska, she made yearly voyages between San Francisco and Alaska for the Alaska Packers Association, carrying men and supplies to the canneries and bringing back packed salmon. Built in 1886 in Glasgow, Scotland, by Charles Connel & Co., the ship measured 256 feet on deck, with a beam of 38 feet, a draft of 22 feet, and gross tonnage of 1689.
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