Balclutha (1886) In 1933, "Star of Alaska" was renamed "Pacific Queen" by her new owner Frank Kissinger. In this guise she appeared in the film "Mutiny on the Bounty" starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. She then eked out an existence as an exhibition ship, gradually deteriorating, and was for a while exhibited as a "pirate ship". In 1954, "Pacific Queen" was acquired by the San Francisco Maritime Museum, which restored her and renamed her "Balclutha" and moored her at Pier 41 East. In 1985 she was designated a National Historic Landmark. In 1988, she was moved to her present mooring at
The Cruel Sea (1953 film) first husband, Denholm Elliott, on the set. The Cruel Sea (1953 film) The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British war film starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister. The film, which was made by Ealing Studios seven years after the end of the Second World War, was directed by Charles Frend and produced by Leslie Norman. It is based on the best selling novel of the same name by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat, though the screenplay by Eric Ambler omits some of Monsarrat's grimmest moments. The film portrays the conditions