MV Lituya

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Career
Commissioned: 2004
Classification: Un Classed
Home Port: Metlakatla, Alaska
Other Ports: Ketchikan, 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).

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