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The Whatcom Chief is a ferry in Washington state, United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The ferry carries both pedestrians and vehicles to Lummi Island from Gooseberry Point west of Bellingham, Washington . The Gooseberry Point terminal is situated on land belonging to the Lummi Nation .
The M/V Taku was the largest of the three AMHS vessels able to serve the communities of Hoonah and Kake and because of this served as a critical component of providing transportation out of Hoonah and Kake after the "milk run" ferry, the MV LeConte hit a rock and went into dry dock.
The only interruptions from this schedule occur when making a voyage out the Aleutian Chain (the Aleutian Chain run consists of the communities of Akutan, Chignik, Cold Bay, False Pass, King Cove, Sand Point, and Unalaska/Dutch Harbor) which the vessel undergoes eight times a year all of which occur during the summer as winter weather becomes ...
Tickets for the two-hour cruise will run for $110, and a portion of the price will go to the dry dock project. Enjoy a lunch aboard the boat including entrees, salads, desserts and full bar ...
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Puget Sound Bridge and Dry Dock Company of Seattle won the contract to build the three ships with a low bid of $10,445,000. [5] Matanuska's keel was laid on July 6, 1962, in the same graving dock from which Taku was launched just a few days before. She was the last built of the three sister ships. [6]
Burrard Dry Dock, North Vancouver, British Columbia [9] 16 January 1962 [10] April 1962 [10] Broken up for scrap 2012 [10] Queen of Saanich: Victoria Machinery Depot, Victoria [11] 28 November 1962 [12] February 1963 [12] Broken up for scrap 2012 [12] Queen of Esquimalt: 22 January 1963 [13] March 1963 [13] Sold 2010, renamed Princess ...
Jul. 16—A well-traveled floating dry dock built in the 1940s to service Navy vessels and relocated to the Port of Brownsville in the 1990s has been retired. The advanced base sectional dock ...