MV Kaleetan
Kaleetan in the San Juan Islands, 2007 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kaleetan |
| Owner | WSDOT |
| Operator | Washington State Ferries |
| Port of registry | Seattle, Washington, US |
| Builder | National Steel and Ship Building (San Diego) |
| Launched | March 12, 1967 |
| Completed | 1967 |
| Acquired | December 24, 1967 |
| In service | January 8, 1968 |
| Identification |
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| Status | Operational |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Super-class auto/passenger ferry |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 3,634 long tons (3,692 t) |
| 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 (6,000 kW) from 4 x diesel-electric engines |
| Propulsion | 4 diesel-electric engines |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Capacity |
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| Crew | 14 |
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. It can hold 144 vehicles, and 1868 passengers. It is in the third largest class of Washington State Ferries. It was built by National Steel and Shipbuilding in San Diego in 1967.
The Kaleetan went into service in early 1968 serving the Seattle-Bainbridge Island route. It was replaced by the Spokane in 1973 and moved north to the Anacortes-San Juan Islands route. It remained in the San Juans, until 1999, when it got a midlife upgrade.
Since its midlife overhaul, the Kaleetan has generally been assigned to the Seattle-Bremerton route, with periodic assignments in the San Juans when necessitated by maintenance schedules.