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
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film) concerning his weight and unattractive looks, suffered horribly in comparing himself to the handsome, masculine Clark Gable. Laughton would constantly watch his own walk, gestures, and face, making sure not to let his complex be projected. A British merchant navy officer recalled in his memoirs seeing the fore and aft-rigged schooner "Commodore II" being broken up in Cape Town in 1945, having suffered severe gale damage, and that this was the ship that had been re-rigged for the film. Contemporary reviews were enthusiastic. Andre Sennwald of "The New York Times" wrote, "Grim, brutal, sturdily romantic, made out of horror and