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MV Chetzemoka ("The Chetzy") is a Kwa-di Tabil-class ferry built at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, Washington for the Washington State Ferries.It was scheduled to start on the Port Townsend-Coupeville [note 1] route in September 2010, but sea trials revealed excessive vibrations in the vessel's propulsion system. [5]
P&O European Ferries (formerly Townsend Thoresen), a division of P&O Ferries, was a ferry company which operated in the English Channel from 1987 after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, when Townsend Thoresen was renamed P&O European Ferries, until 1999 when the Portsmouth Operations became P&O Portsmouth and the Dover Operations were merged with Stena Line AB to make P&O Stena Line.
MV Kennewick is a Kwa-di Tabil-class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries. She entered service on the Port Townsend–Coupeville ferry route on February 14, 2012. She entered service on the Port Townsend–Coupeville ferry route on February 14, 2012.
The Salish serves on the Port Townsend-Coupeville run during the summer and summer-shoulder seasons. In the winter, late fall, and early spring, the Salish is a back-up vessel, coming into service as needed when other ferries undergo maintenance, usually on the Port Townsend-Coupeville or Point Defiance-Tahlequah runs.
As a result of this acquisition it changed its name to European Ferries Ltd. In 1971 the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company Ltd (trading as Transport Ferry Service) was acquired from the National Freight Corporation. All three of the companies under European Ferries used the name Townsend Thoresen to market their ferry services.
In January the following year, P&O purchased a 50.01% interest in European Financial Holdings Ltd, which held 20.8% of shares in European Ferries, [1] followed in 1987 with the purchase of the remaining shares of the European Ferries Group whose ferry services were trading as Townsend Thoresen.
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In October 2010 it was announced that she would end her P&O service on 14 December 2010 with her last crossing leaving Dover at 23:55 local time. She was replaced by the new Superferry Spirit of Britain, with a bigger capacity and almost double the gross tonnage, at 47,600 tons, the second-largest ferry to cross the channel. [5]