FA+
Shop
193
Views
Views
3
Favorites
Favorites
Category
Photography / Scenery
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 600 x 800
File Size 54.1 kB
Report this content
More from Klickitat
I took this photo a few years ago aboard the M/V Klickitat, the steel-electric ferry from which my name is taken. She was one of four mostly identical boats, and served from 1927 until 2007 - a respectable 80 years on the waters of Puget Sound. On this trip, we were crossing from Keystone, on Whidbey Island, to Port Townsend, on the peninsula, and the Klickitat was one of only a handful of ships able to make the run, thanks to her shallow draft and the very shallow docks at either landing.
She was taken to Mexico in 2009 and sold for scrap metal (a mere $50,000), alongside her sister ships the M/V Nisqually, the M/V Quinault, and the M/V Illahee. Their smaller design, coupled with their distinctive round portholes made the steel-electric ferries some of my very favorites in the Washington fleet.
To learn all about the M/V Klickitat, check out http://www.evergreenfleet.com/klick.....atretired.html .
Since the sudden removal of the steel-electrics from the PT-Keystone run, the Steilacoom II has been substituting, although the 144-car M/V Chetzemoka should be finishing her sea trials any week now and be put to service full time in the Steilacoom II's place, with another new pair of boats (The M/V Salish and the M/V Kennewick due in another year or two.
Oh, by the way, ferries are pretty much one of my most favorite things ever. ;)
She was taken to Mexico in 2009 and sold for scrap metal (a mere $50,000), alongside her sister ships the M/V Nisqually, the M/V Quinault, and the M/V Illahee. Their smaller design, coupled with their distinctive round portholes made the steel-electric ferries some of my very favorites in the Washington fleet.
To learn all about the M/V Klickitat, check out http://www.evergreenfleet.com/klick.....atretired.html .
Since the sudden removal of the steel-electrics from the PT-Keystone run, the Steilacoom II has been substituting, although the 144-car M/V Chetzemoka should be finishing her sea trials any week now and be put to service full time in the Steilacoom II's place, with another new pair of boats (The M/V Salish and the M/V Kennewick due in another year or two.
Oh, by the way, ferries are pretty much one of my most favorite things ever. ;)
Category Photography / Scenery
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 600 x 800px
File Size 54.1 kB
*is shocked*
...I did not know that they met a fate like that. I guess I spend too much time up north. I would see those 4 all the time when I was working in Friday Harbor. I had heard that some of them were getting to the point of being unrepairable but I did not know they were gone. }:=(
...I did not know that they met a fate like that. I guess I spend too much time up north. I would see those 4 all the time when I was working in Friday Harbor. I had heard that some of them were getting to the point of being unrepairable but I did not know they were gone. }:=(
The last time I saw the Klickitat was on a crossing from Edmonds to Kingston. She was moored at the second dock on the Kingston side. It was late at night, and they were in the process of stripping her already, so there were no lights aboard, she was only lit by ambient light from the dock and the boat we were aboard (The Spokane, probably). Sitting there quietly in the dark, the waters were perfectly still, she really did look like a ghost. I suppose it's a fitting last memory for the ship, because the last I thing I saw was her fading away into the night as we pulled back off towards Edmonds.
Comments