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Catalina Express (legally Catalina Channel Express) is an American passenger ferry service that operates scheduled trips between Santa Catalina Island and mainland California. The company began service in 1981 with a single sixty-passenger vessel.
Catalina Express provides daily service to Catalina Island from San Pedro, Long Beach and Dana Point, California. Catalina Flyer out of Newport Beach, California, is a 500-passenger high-speed catamaran to and from Avalon, California, on Santa Catalina Island. Aqualink catamaran ferry between Alamitos Bay and Long Beach Harbor in Long Beach ...
Catalina is serviced by passenger ferries operated by Catalina Express, Catalina Classic Cruises, and Catalina Flyer. Ferries depart from Long Beach and San Pedro in Los Angeles County as well as Dana Point and Newport Beach in Orange County. The ferry crossing takes just over an hour. [75] Helicopter service is also available from Long Beach ...
SS Catalina, also known as The Great White Steamer, was a 301-foot steamship built in 1924 that provided passenger service on the 26-mile passage between Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island from 1924 to 1975. According to the Steamship Historical Society of America, Catalina carried more
The Catalina Flyer is the largest passenger-carrying catamaran on the West Coast of the United States [4] [5] and at the time it was launched it was the largest in North America. [2] It carries an eight-person crew, [5] and features a sundeck, full-service lounges and large view windows. Catalina Flyer passengers coming ashore at Catalina Islaland.
Long Beach Transit operates 37 bus routes, serving the Gateway Cities region of Los Angeles County. In addition to its bus services, LBT contracts with Catalina Express for the operation of two water taxi routes, and organizes the Dial-A-Lift paratransit service.
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With the outbreak of World War II, the island was taken over by the U.S. military, and the ships of the Wilmington Transportation Company were conscripted as well.The SS Avalon was left behind for limited transportation to and from the mainland, while the SS Catalina and SS Cabrillo were taken to San Francisco to serve as troop transports for the San Francisco Port of Embarkation.