MV Wenatchee

Career
Name: MV Wenatchee
Owner: WSDOT
Operator: Washington State Ferries
Route: Seattle-Bainbridge Island
Builder: Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle, Washington
Completed: 1998
Status: In service
General characteristics
Class and type: Jumbo Mark II Class auto/passenger ferry
Length: 460 ft 2 in (140.3 m)
Beam: 90 ft (27.4 m)
Draft: 17 ft 3 in (5.3 m)
Deck clearance: 15 ft 4 in (4.7 m)
Installed power: Total of 16,000 hp from 4 x Diesel-Electric engines
Speed: 18 kn (33 km/h)
Capacity: 2500 passengers
218 vehicles (max 60 commercial)

The MV Wenatchee is a Jumbo Mark II Class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.

Almost without exception since being launched, she has served the Seattle/Bainbridge Island route. [1] As with most of the ferries in the system, she was named after a city in Washington state. Wenatchee has been involved in a couple of notable incidents. In 2000, during a particularly low tide, she touched bottom while rounding Tyee Shoal at the entrance of Bainbridge Island's Eagle Harbor, resulting in minor keel and propeller damage. On August 30, 2009, she had an allision with the #3 slip at Pier 52 in Seattle. There was heavy fog at the time and the vessel and slip were out of service for four days.

Wenatchee was also the vessel portrayed in an episode of "Grey's Anatomy" in which she fictionally collided with a freighter.

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