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Seattle–Bainbridge Ferry
The Seattle–Bainbridge ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington. The route was called the Seattle–Winslow ferry before the city of Winslow annexed the rest of the island and changed its name. Since 1951 the only ferries employed on the route have belonged to the Washington state ferry system, currently the largest ferry system in the United States. Description This ferry route is long, with terminals at Colman Dock in Seattle and on Bainbridge Island, at Winslow. Next to the Winslow terminal is Eagle Harbor, the main shipyard for the Washington State Ferry system.Demoro, Harre, ''The Evergreen Fleet'', pp. 45–47 History Before ferries were dominant on Puget Sound, the route was served by passenger and freight-carrying steamboats. The wooden steamship ''Florence K'' served the route for the Eagle Harbor Transportation Co., until 1915 when the company put the new steamer ''Bainbridge'' on the route, and shifted ''Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bainbridge Island
Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington. It is located in Puget Sound. The population was 23,025 at the 2010 census and an estimated 25,298 in 2019, making Bainbridge Island the second largest city in Kitsap County. The island is separated from the Kitsap Peninsula by Port Orchard, with Bremerton lying to the southwest. Bainbridge Island is a suburb of Seattle, connected via the Washington State Ferries system and to Poulsbo and the Suquamish Indian Reservation by State Route 305, which uses the Agate Pass Bridge. History For thousands of years, members of the Suquamish people and their ancestors lived on the land now called Bainbridge Island. There were nine villages on the island; these included winter villages at Port Madison, Battle Point, Point White, Lynwood Center, Port Blakely, and Eagle Harbor, as well as summer villages at Manzanita, Fletcher Bay, and Rolling Bay. In 1792, English explorer Captain George Vancouver spent several days w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Elwha
MV ''Elwha'' was a in the Washington State Ferry System. The vessel entered service in June 1968, and spent most of her career working the Anacortes-San Juan Islands-Sidney B.C. route. History ''Elwha'' was built in 1967 in San Diego, California, as the last of the four Super-class ferries. She made her maiden voyage on June 16, 1968 on the Seattle-Bainbridge Island route, and remained on the route for the first four years of her career before being replaced in fall 1972 by the . For much of the 1970s, the ''Elwha'' served as a maintenance relief vessel, filling in for other Super and Jumbo-class ferries when and where needed for maintenance cycles. In the 1980s, ''Elwha'' was assigned to the Anacortes-San Juan Islands route, where she stayed, with rare exception, until her retirement in 2020. On October 2, 1983, the ''Elwha'' ran aground in Grindstone Harbor, near Orcas Island, on a submerged reef while carrying 100 passengers. The collision was initially blamed on the fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Kaleetan
The MV ''Kaleetan'' is a operated by Washington State Ferries. The ''Kaleetan'' (meaning arrow in Chinook) is named for a mountain peak northwest of Snoqualmie Pass Snoqualmie Pass is a mountain pass that carries Interstate 90 (I-90) through the Cascade Range in the U.S. state of Washington. The pass summit is at an elevation of , on the county line between Kittitas County and King County. Snoqualmie Pass .... She can hold 144 vehicles, and 1868 passengers. She is in the third largest class of Washington State Ferries. She was built by National Steel and Shipbuilding in San Diego in 1967. The ''Kaleetan'' went into service in early 1968 serving the Seattle-Bainbridge Island route. She was replaced by the 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. Since its midlife overhaul, the ''Kaleetan'' has generally been assigned to the Seattle-Bremerton route, with periodic assignment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super-class Ferry
The Super-class ferries are a class of , 144-car ferries built in 1967 for Washington State Ferries. History The Super-class ferry was designed to complement the smaller ferries, as well as to replace the aging . The design of the Super class was done in Seattle by W.C. Nickum and Sons, a naval architectural firm, and Washington State Ferries. Funding for the Super-class ferry design and construction was made available by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and state and federal funds. Once the design was complete, a low bid was accepted by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego, California, which constructed all four vessels over a period of two years. The Super class was to designed to accommodate the rapidly expanding population growth in Puget Sound, especially in the Bremerton and Bainbridge Island Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington. It is located in Puget Sound. The population was 23, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonds–Kingston Ferry
The Edmonds–Kingston ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between Edmonds and Kingston, Washington. Since 1951 the only ferries employed on the route have belonged to the Washington state ferry system, currently the largest ferry system in the United States. The last regularly operated steam ferry on the West Coast of the United States made its final run on this route in 1969. Description The route crosses the Puget Sound with Edmonds, Washington as the eastern terminus and Kingston, Washington as the western terminus. The crossing is generally 30 minutes from either terminal. History After 1951, the main ferry on the route was the (capacity: 616 passengers; 59 automobiles), with the steam ferry ''Shasta'' operating as a reserve boat. Other ferries used on the route were the ''Klahanie'', the steam ferry ''San Mateo'', and the Evergreen-class motor ferry (capacity: 981 passengers, 87 autos). In 1968 the Evergreen-class ferry (capacity: 1,200 passengers, 87 autos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle–Bremerton Ferry
The Seattle–Bremerton ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between Seattle and Bremerton, Washington. Since 1951, the route has primarily been operated by the state-run Washington State Ferries system, currently the largest ferry system in the United States. Kitsap Transit also runs passenger-only "fast ferries" service on the route. History The Seattle–Bremerton ferry route was once known as the "Navy Yard route". Before ferry service, the route was served by steamships and steamboats, such as the ''Inland Flyer''. The sternwheeler ''Bailey Gatzert'', once considered one of the most prestigious vessels to operate on Puget Sound and the Columbia River, was converted to an automobile ferry and as such became the first ferry to run on the Seattle-Bremerton route.Newell, Gordon, R., ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', at 291, Superior Publishing, Seattle, WA, 1966 Another vessel to run on the route was the unique "streamlined" ferry ''Kala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Peninsula
The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Hood Canal. Cape Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, and Cape Flattery, the northwesternmost point, are on the peninsula. Comprising about , the Olympic Peninsula contained many of the last unexplored places in the contiguous United States. It remained largely unmapped until Arthur Dodwell and Theodore Rixon mapped most of its topography and timber resources between 1898 and 1900. Geography Clallam and Jefferson Counties, as well as the northern parts of Grays Harbor and Mason Counties, are on the peninsula. The Kitsap Peninsula, bounded by the Hood Canal and Puget Sound, is an entirely separate peninsula and is not connected to the Olympic Peninsula. From Olympia, the state capital, U.S. Route 101 r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitsap Peninsula
The Kitsap Peninsula () lies west of Seattle across Puget Sound, in Washington state in the Pacific Northwest. Hood Canal separates the peninsula from the Olympic Peninsula on its west side. The peninsula, a.k.a. "Kitsap", encompasses all of Kitsap County except Bainbridge and Blake Islands, as well as the northeastern part of Mason County and the northwestern part of Pierce County. The highest point on the Kitsap Peninsula is Gold Mountain. The U.S. Navy's Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and Naval Base Kitsap (comprising the former NSB Bangor and NS Bremerton) are on the peninsula. Its main city is Bremerton. Though earlier referred to as the Great Peninsula or Indian Peninsula, with "Great Peninsula" still its official name, its current name comes from Kitsap County, which occupies most of the peninsula. It is thus the namesake of Chief Kitsap, an 18th- and 19th-century warrior and medicine man of the Suquamish Tribe. The Suquamish were one of the historical fishing tribes belon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agate Pass Bridge
The Agate Pass Bridge is a structural steel truss cantilever bridge spanning Agate Pass, connecting Bainbridge Island to the Kitsap Peninsula. It was built in 1950, and it replaced a car ferry service which dated from the 1920s. The bridge provides a direct route along Washington State Route 305 between Seattle, via the Seattle-Bainbridge Island ferry, and the Kitsap Peninsula. The Agate Pass Bridge is long and is above the water and has a channel clearance of between piers. The original construction cost of $1,351,363 was paid out of the motor vehicle fund, and operated as a toll bridge from October 7, 1950, until October 1, 1951, when costs were repaid by a bond issue passed by the Washington State Legislature. The Washington Toll Bridge Authority managed the bridge during the year it took to repay the bond. The Agate Pass Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS San Mateo
SS ''San Mateo'' was a steamship ferry operating on the west coast of the United States. Launched in 1922, she served until 1940 in San Francisco Bay, operated by the Southern Pacific Golden Gate Ferries. In 1941 she was acquired by the Puget Sound Navigation Company, and then operated on Puget Sound until its retirement in 1969. At the time of her retirement she was the last operating vehicular steam ferry in the United States. After attempts to restore her for display in a Seattle waterfront park, she was acquired by a Canadian businessman and towed in 1992 to the Fraser River in British Columbia. The vessel became part of a small collection of derelict ferries. There she was partially scrapped; portions of her hulk are still visible in the river, and readily apparent on satellite photos, as of 2021. A photo at the dock in July 2021 shows her hulk partially or fully aground, and leaning toward the former BC Ferries MV ''Queen of Sidney''. The ship was listed on the National Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Tillikum
The MV ''Tillikum'' is the sole remaining operated by Washington State Ferries (WSF) and the oldest ferry operating in the WSF system. The ''Tillikum'' entered service in April 1959 for the Seattle–Bainbridge Island Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington. It is located in Puget Sound. The population was 23,025 at the 2010 census and an estimated 25,298 in 2019, making Bainbridge Island the second largest city in Kitsap County. ... route. Upon the delivery of the ferries in 1968, the ''Tillikum'' was moved to the Edmonds-Kingston run where it remained until approximately 1980. After being displaced by the ferry in the early 1980s, the ''Tillikum'' spent roughly a decade as a relief boat before settling on the Fauntleroy- Vashon- Southworth run in the early 1990s. The ''Tillikum'' has become a reserve vessel since the delivery of the in 2015. Since the retirement of her sister in 2017, she has been serving primarily as the San Juan Inter-is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
