M/V Lituya
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Commissioned: | 2004 |
| Classification: | Un Classed |
| Home Port: | Metlakatla, Alaska |
| Decommissioned: | Currently active |
| Fate: | Currently active |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Unknown |
| Length: | 180 ft (55 m) |
| Beam: | 50 feet (15 m) |
| Draught: | 10 feet |
| Horsepower: | 2,000 |
| Speed: | 12 knots |
| Capacity: | Passengers, 150 Automobiles, 18 |
| Access: | Port, starboard, and aft ro-ro loading One vehicle deck |
| Named After: | Lituya Glacier adjacent to Lituya Bay |
The M/V Lituya is a shuttle ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway System.
The M/V Lituya was built by Conrad Shipyards in Morgan City, Louisiana in 2004. The Lituya is the smallest vessel in the ferry system and, as of 2006 exclusively serving the 16.5 nautical mile Metlakatla-Ketchikan shuttle route, thus making it the only AMHS vessel to serve Metlakatla. The Lituya is one of the three ferry system vessels designed to operate only in the day (the others are the fast ferries M/V Chenega and M/V Fairweather) so it homeports in Metlakatla where its crew of six also resides. The Lituya has no food service on board and is also the only Alaska Marine Highway vessel to feature an open car deck (the design of the Lituya was based on offshore oil platform supply vessels).
