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
Acquired:	December 24, 1967
In service:	January 8, 1968
Out of service:	2023 (Planned)
Identification:	IMO number: 8835346 MMSI number: 366772990 Callsign: WY2512
Status:	Operational
General characteristics
Class and type:	Super-class auto/passenger ferry
Tonnage:	2,704 gross-tonnage 1,214 net-tonnage
Displacement:	3634 (in long tons)
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 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 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
SS San Mateo SS Shasta
Anderson Class	MV Kitsap (1925) MV Vashon
Governor Class	MV Olympic MV Rhododendron
Evergreen State-class	MV Evergreen State MV Klahowya
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 Kulshan MV Leschi MV Rosario MV Tyee

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