MV Evergreen State

History
MV Evergreen State in Upright Passage, between Shaw and Lopez Islands
Name:	MV Evergreen State
Owner:	WSDOT
Operator:	Washington State Ferries
Port of registry:	Seattle, Washington, United States
Route:	Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth
Completed:	1954 Refit: 1988
In service:	November 27, 1954
Out of service:	December 31, 2015
Identification:	Official Number: D268732 Call Sign: WTQ6960^[1]
Status:	Retired
Notes:	Retired from regular service June 29, 2014
General characteristics
Class and type:	Evergreen State-class auto/passenger ferry
Length:	310 ft (94.5 m)
Beam:	73 ft (22.3 m)
Draft:	15 ft 10 in (4.8 m)
Decks:	1 auto deck/1 passenger deck
Deck clearance:	13 ft 7 in (4.1 m)
Installed power:	Total 2,500 hp from 2 Diesel-Electric engines
Speed:	13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Capacity:	981 passengers 87 vehicles (max 30 commercial)^[2]

The MV Evergreen State is a decommissioned Evergreen State Class ferry that was operated by Washington State Ferries from 1954 to 2015.

She was named for the state of Washington, whose nickname is "The Evergreen State". When delivered in 1954, the Evergreen State was assigned to the Seattle-Winslow run serving Bainbridge Island. She was reassigned to the San Juan Islands in 1959 where she remained for the majority of her active career for Washington State Ferries. From June 2000 until the retirement of the Steel Electric class in November 2007 this ferry was used as a relief vessel. The sudden retirement of the Steel Electrics forced the full time reactivation of the Evergreen State. After reactivation, the Evergreen State was the inter-island service vessel in the San Juan Islands. The Evergreen State left the San Juan Islands for good on June 29, 2014, replaced by her sister ship MV Klahowya, and made her last sailing from Friday Harbor at 2:15PM and from Lopez Island at 3:05PM. Following that sailing, she sailed to Eagle Harbor on Bainbridge Island. A month after 'retirement,' a substantial fleet shortage resulted in the reactivation of the Evergreen State,^[3] and since then the vessel has been in service more often than not, usually on the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth triangle route. Galley Service has not been provided on the Evergreen State since the mid 2000s.

On January 14, 2016, Washington State Ferries issued a press release stating that the ferry "has been decommissioned and will soon be put up for sale."^[4]^[5] The vessel is now officially retired.

References

↑ The Evergreen State class today - M/V Evergreen State, evergreenfleet.com
↑ Vessel info - M/V Evergreen State, WSF, WSDOT
↑ "Damage to ferry Tacoma more extensive than believed". Kitsap Sun. August 4, 2014. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
↑ "State's oldest ferry officially decommissioned" (Press release). Washington State Ferries. January 14, 2016. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
↑ DeMay, Daniel (January 15, 2016). "Oldest state ferry officially retired". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved January 20, 2016.

Washington State Ferries

Routes

Anacortes–San Juan Islands Edmonds–Kingston Fauntleroy–Vashon–Southworth Mukilteo–Clinton Point Defiance–Tahlequah Port Townsend–Coupeville Seattle–Bainbridge Seattle–Bremerton

Terminals

Colman Dock (Seattle)

Current fleet

Jumbo Mark-II-class	MV Tacoma MV Wenatchee MV Puyallup

Jumbo-class	MV Spokane MV Walla Walla

Super-class	MV Hyak MV Kaleetan MV Yakima MV Elwha

Olympic-class	MV Tokitae MV Samish MV Chimacum (under construction) MV Suquamish (under construction)

Issaquah 130-class	MV Cathlamet MV Chelan MV Issaquah MV Kitsap MV Kittitas

Issaquah-class	MV Sealth

Evergreen State-class	MV Klahowya MV Tillikum

Kwa-di Tabil-class	MV Chetzemoka MV Salish MV Kennewick

Retired fleet

Steel Electric-class	MV Enetai MV Illahee MV Klickitat MV Nisqually MV Quinault MV Willapa

Wood Electric-class	MV Chetzemoka (1927) MV Kehloken MV Klahanie

Evergreen State-class	MV Evergreen State

Skagit Kalama-class	MV Kalama MV Skagit

Passenger-Only Fast Ferry-class	MV Chinook MV Snohomish

No Class	MV Chippewa MV Crosline MV Hiyu MV Kalakala MV Kitsap (1925) MV Kulshan MV Leschi MV Olympic MV Rhododendron MV Rosario MV Saksnonia MV Tyee MV Vashon SS San Mateo SS Shasta

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 6/27/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.