MV Kaleetan

History
Name: MV Kaleetan
Owner: WSDOT
Operator: Washington State Ferries
Port of registry: Seattle, WA, USA
Builder: National Steel and Ship Building (San Diego)
Launched: March 12, 1967
Completed: 1967
Acquired: December 24, 1967
In service: January 8, 1968
Identification:
Status: Operational
General characteristics
Class and type: Super-class auto/passenger ferry
Tonnage:
  • 2,704 gross-tonnage
  • 1,214 net-tonnage
Displacement: 3634 (in long tons)
Length: 382 ft 2 in (116.5 m)
Beam: 73 ft 2 in (22.3 m)
Draft: 18 ft 6 in (5.6 m)
Decks:

2 Car Decks

2 Passenger Decks (One with a Sun Deck Promenade)
Deck clearance: 14 ft 5 in (4.4 m)
Ramps: 4
Installed power: Total 8,000 hp from 4 x Diesel-Electric engines
Propulsion: 4 Diesel-Electric Engines
Speed: 17 kn (31 km/h)
Capacity:
  • 1868 passengers
  • 144 vehicles (max 30 commercial)
  • Originally 2500 passengers; 160 vehicles
Crew: 14

The MV Kaleetan is a Super-class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.

The Kaleetan (meaning arrow in Chinook) is named for a mountain peak northwest of Snoqualmie Pass. She can hold 144 vehicles, and 1868 passengers.[1] She is in the third largest class of Washington State Ferries. She was built by National Steel and Shipbuilding in San Diego in 1967.[1]

The Kaleetan went into service in early 1968 serving the Seattle-Bainbridge Island route. She was replaced by the M/V Walla Walla in 1973,and moved north to the Anacortes-San Juan Islands route. She remained in the San Juans, until 1999, when she got a midlife upgrade.[2]

Since its midlife overhaul, the Kaleetan has generally been assigned to the Seattle-Bremerton route, with periodic assignments in the San Juans when necessitated by maintenance schedules.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "WSDOT - Ferries - M/V Kaleetan". www.wsdot.wa.gov. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
  2. 1 2 Pickens, Steven J. "The M/V Kaleetan". evergreenfleet.com. Retrieved 2016-09-18.


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