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The ferry system carried a total of 18.66 million riders in 2023—9.69 million passengers and 8.97 million vehicles. [3] WSF is the largest ferry system in the United States and the second-largest vehicular ferry system in the world behind BC Ferries. [4] The state ferries carried an average of 59,900 per weekday in the third quarter of 2024.
Hamnavoe is the first ferry to have been specifically built for the Pentland Firth route, [citation needed] and was given the old Norse name for Stromness, meaning 'Home Port' or 'Safe Haven'. [3] The ship was originally ordered in October 2000 from Ferguson Shipbuilders at Port Glasgow but Fergusons withdrew from the contract only two months ...
In 2015, Kitsap Transit drafted a business plan for a "fast ferry" system serving Bremerton, Kingston, and Southworth from Seattle, funded by a local sales tax and fares. [54] The Kitsap Transit board voted in April 2016 to place a 0.3 percent sales tax on the November 2016 ballot that would fund a three-route passenger-only ferry system to ...
Stromness presents to the Atlantic a range of cliffs between 100 and 500 feet (30 and 150 metres) high, and to Hoy Sound a band of fertile lowlands. The rocks possess great geological interest, and were made well known by the publication of the evangelical geologist Hugh Miller, The Footprints of the Creator or The Asterolepsis of Stromness (1849).
The Old Man stands close to Rackwick Bay on the west coast of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland, and can be seen from the Scrabster to Stromness ferry. [1] From certain angles it is said to resemble a human figure. [2] Winds are faster than 8 metres per second (18 mph) for nearly a third of the time, and gales occur on average for 29 days a year.
The dramatic coastline of Hoy can be seen by visitors travelling to Orkney by ferry from the Scottish mainland. It has some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach 350 metres (1,150 ft). [1] The name Hoy comes from the Norse word Háey meaning "high island". [4]
The island has two lighthouses, Hoy High (NE) and Hoy Low (NW), both built in 1851 by Alan Stevenson [7] for the 19th-century herring industry. At the Point of Oxan in the far north west, in Burra Sound, are block ships, which were scuttled deliberately during World War II. This is a common feature of the straits and former straits around Scapa ...
The AMHS ordered the new construction of the MV Columbia, which replaced the Wickersham on the mainline Seattle route in 1974. [9] The southern terminus of the AMHS remained in Seattle until October 1989, when it moved to the Bellingham Cruise Terminal in Fairhaven, Washington, after signing a 20-year lease with the city of Bellingham. [10] [11]