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
Charles Laughton It frequently appeared on LP with a companion piece, Decca's 1941 adaptation of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol", starring Ronald Colman as Scrooge. Both stories were released together on a Deutsche Grammophon CD for Christmas 2005. In 1943, Laughton recorded a reading of the Nativity story from St. Luke's Gospel, and this was released in 1995 on CD on a Nimbus Records collection entitled "Prima Voce: The Spirit of Christmas Past". A Brunswick/American Decca LP entitled "Readings from the Bible" featured Laughton reading Garden of Eden, The Fiery Furnace, Noah's Ark, and David and Goliath. It was released in 1958. Laughton