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The North Carolina Ferry System operates five Sound Class ferries. These ferries are the largest in the system, able to carry up to 50 cars. These Ferries are designed to withstand the abuse of constantly traversing the shallow, turbulent waters of the Pamlico Sound. The M/V Pamlico has been sold to Cross Sound Ferry of New London, CT.
MV Veteran is a ferry operating in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.She is operated by the provincial Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, entering service on the route from Newfoundland to Fogo Island and Change Islands at the end of 2015.
The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, doing business as The Steamship Authority (SSA), is the statutory regulatory body for all ferry operations between mainland Massachusetts and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, as well an operator of ferry services between the mainland and the islands.
The M/V Mackinac Express during her time as a Arnold Line catamaran ferry at Mackinac Island. Arnold Transit Company (most assets purchased by Star Line—now Mackinac Island Ferry Company—in 2016) Current boats Algomah (1961) Beaver, (1952), freight; Chippewa (1962) Corsair (1955), freight; Huron (1955) Mackinac Express (1987), catamaran
Inter-Island Ferry Authority experimented with various traffic-building promotions, without success. [18] After sailing the northern route for the summers of 2006, 2007, and 2008, annual travel never exceeded 3,000 passengers, and 1,000 vehicles.
The 1928 OSTC schedule for the S.S. Manitoulin continued as it had the previous year, while the Manisoo departed Owen Sound on Thursdays at 11:15 p.m. for a run that did not include Mackinac Island. After completing her northward voyage at Sault Ste Marie, the Manisoo returned to Owen Sound at 4:30 Tuesday mornings.
The ship travels at a top speed of 34 knots (39 mph; 63 km/h) [1] and makes the 68-nautical-mile (78 mi; 126 km) trip three times daily from each side of the lake during the peak of its operational schedule. Lake Express is able to cross the lake in two and a half hours.
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]