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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. LeConte is the older sister ship to M/V Aurora, and both serve as feeder vessels that pick up passengers in small communities such as Hoonah and ...
The Alaska Marine Highway System was formed in tandem with statehood. In the early 1960s, Alaska voters had approved bond packages to build four ferries — the Malaspina, the Matanuska and the ...
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]
However, unlike the LeConte, the Aurora was moved out of Southeast Alaska into Prince William Sound area in 2005 to take the place of the retired MV Bartlett. This move, however, was highly controversial as the MV Chenega , a fast ferry, was supposed to take this role and been promised for years in advance to the Prince William Sound area and ...
Former Alaska Marine Highway System vessels (4 P) Pages in category "Alaska Marine Highway System vessels" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Leconte Prize, prize in mathematics and science awarded by French Academy of Sciences; Le Conte Station, light rail station in San Francisco; Leconte's haploa, Haploa lecontei, a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae; Le Conte's thrasher, Toxostoma lecontei; Le Conte's sparrow, Ammodramus leconteii; M/V LeConte, a vessel in the Alaska Marine Highway ...
Nov. 20—A pickup truck fell from the Muldoon Road overpass Sunday evening and landed upside down on the Glenn Highway after the driver lost control on black ice, police said. The driver, who ...
On 10 May 2004, she rendered assistance to the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry LeConte, which had run aground that morning in Peril Strait near Cozian Reef, about 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) north of Sitka, Alaska. [1] [2] She joined other vessels in rescuing LeConte ' s 86 passengers from life rafts, picking up most of them herself. [2]