MV Kaleetan

History

Name:	MV Kaleetan
Owner:	WSDOT
Operator:	Washington State Ferries
Port of registry:	Seattle, WA, USA
Route:	Seattle-Bremerton
Builder:	National Steel and Ship Building (San Diego)
Launched:	March 12, 1967
Completed:	1967
In service:	1968
Out of service:	2023 (Planned)
Status:	Operational
General characteristics
Class and type:	Super Class auto/passenger ferry
Tonnage:	2,704 gross-tonnage 1,214 net-tonnage
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 Spokane in 1973,and moved north to the Anacortes-San Juan Islands route. She remained in either the number two or three spot in the San Juans, until 1999, when she got a midlife upgrade.^[2] She received a new interior, and new steel. Her colors went from brown, to light and dark blue.

She spent her life in the San Juans, until 2007, when she was brought down to the Seattle-Bremerton route.^[2] She has remained on the Bremerton route since then, only going back to the San Juans when filling in for another vessel.

She is currently set to be retired in 2023^[3] when the 6th Olympic Class vessel join the fleet.^[4]

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.
↑ "WSF Scenarios" (PDF).
↑ "WSF Long Term Plan" (PDF).

External links

Media related to Kaleetan (ship, 1967) at Wikimedia Commons
Vessel info from WSDOT

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

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