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THE BALCLUTHA
In the 1880s the Cape Horn trade to and from San Francisco
was at its height. Full rigged ships like the Balclutha carried
the Old World's coal, whiskey, and manufactured goods
around South America to the new city by the Golden Gate.
From here these ships departed for North Europe laden with
California grain as many as 559 square riggers to carry
a single season's harvest.
Balclutha survives from these vanished fleets, a typical
Cape Horner of the '80s. She was built in Glasgow in 1886,
and is now preserved by the San Francisco Maritime Mu-
seum Association at Pier 43, Fisherman's Wharf.
"She is like the ships of my distant boyhood and a thing of beauty
Inow gone from all the seas and harbors".-John Masefield, writing
of Balclutha to Miss Edith Ledle of San Francisco, January, 1959.
Color photo by Karl Kortum
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