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M/V Tustumena is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. [1]Tustumena was constructed in 1963 by Christy Corporation in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin [2] and refurbished in 1969 in San Francisco.
The forerunner to the Alaska Marine Highway was the Chilkoot Motorship Lines, [6] founded in 1948 by Haines residents Steve Homer and Ray Gelotte. [2] The company used a converted LCT-Mark VI landing craft, christened the MV Chilkoot. [1]
Highway on the Sea: A Pictorial History of the Alaska Marine Highway System. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-929521-87-9. "Vessel Profiles". Alaska Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on March 30, 2013; Welcome Aboard! M/V Taku. Alaska Marine Highway pamphlet.
Six decades after the Alaska Marine Highway System launched its first vessels and became a vital transportation link, it's beset by worker shortages, financial troubles, political fights and an ...
The M/V Columbia is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System.. M/V Columbia at Bellingham Cruise Terminal. Constructed in 1974 by Lockheed Shipbuilding in Seattle, Washington, the M/V Columbia has been the flagship vessel for the Alaska ferry system for over 40 years.
The ferry system, taking advantage of her ocean-going status, sends the vessel on a monthly trans-Gulf of Alaska ("cross-gulf") voyage beginning in Juneau and concluding in Kodiak. On this voyage, the Kennicott is able to provide service to the isolated Gulf of Alaska community of Yakutat and is the only vessel to do so.
MV LeConte (/ l ə ˈ k ɒ n t eɪ / lə-KON-tay) is a feeder vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System, built in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in 1973 and commissioned in 1974 by Alaska's ferry system.
In 2019 the Alaska Marine Highway System replaced Fairweather with MV Tazlina on the Juneau-Skagway-Haines route. While Tazlina requires twice as long to complete the round-trip as Fairweather , she can carry 53 cars instead of 31, and the state expects to save $400,000 per year in fuel costs. [ 34 ]