MV Kaleetan
History | |
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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: |
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Status: | Operational |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Super-class auto/passenger ferry |
Tonnage: |
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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: |
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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 2 "WSDOT - Ferries - M/V Kaleetan". www.wsdot.wa.gov. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
- 1 2 Pickens, Steven J. "The M/V Kaleetan". evergreenfleet.com. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
External links
Media related to Kaleetan (ship, 1967) at Wikimedia Commons - Vessel info from WSDOT