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MV Coho in Victoria Harbour, British Columbia, Canada Looking back on the bridge, from the bow The MV Coho is a passenger and vehicle ferry owned and operated by Black Ball Line . [ 2 ] Black Ball's only ferry, Coho carries passengers and cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailers , bicycles, etc. between Victoria , British Columbia , Canada and ...
MV Coho in Victoria Harbour, British Columbia, Canada. The Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSNC) was founded by Charles E. Peabody in 1898. [1] Today the company operates an international passenger and vehicle ferry service between Port Angeles, Washington, United States and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on the MV Coho, [2] through its operating company, Black Ball Ferry Line.
Set up in 1960 to provide a similar service to that provided by the Black Ball Line and the Canadian Pacific Railway, which were affected by job action at the time, BC Ferries has become the largest passenger ferry line in North America, [2] operating a fleet of 41 vessels with a total passenger and crew capacity of over 27,000, serving 47 ...
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.
The Black Ball Line (originally known as the Wright, Thompson, Marshall, & Thompson Line, then as the Old Line) was a passenger line founded by a group of New York Quaker merchants headed by Jeremiah Thompson, and included Isaac Wright & Son (William), Francis Thompson and Benjamin Marshall. All were Quakers except Marshall.
Black Ball Line (Liverpool), a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool and Australia owned by James Baines & Co, founded in 1852; Puget Sound Navigation Company, a fleet of ferries on Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia and Washington known as the Black Ball Line, founded in 1898
Victoria: 0.00: 0.00: Oswego Street / Belleville Street – Ferry Terminal: Southern terminus; Belleville Street continues west; Black Ball Ferries to Port Angeles; Victoria Clipper passenger ferry to Seattle: 0.60: 0.37: Douglas Street (Highway 1 (TCH)) – Nanaimo: At-grade, traffic signals: 1.30: 0.81: Blanshard Street: Hwy 17 turns north ...
Beginning in 1951, the Black Ball Line originally ran its ferry service from Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay using the ferries Kahloke and Chinook. In November 1961, BC Ferries took over service by acquiring the Black Ball Line. [2] Prior to the opening of the Duke Point ferry terminal in 1997, Departure Bay had regular ferry service to ...