MV KALAKALA Ferry Built in Lake Washington The ferry Kalakala was launched from the Lake Washington Shipyards, in Kirkland, on July 2, 1935. Between 1935 and 1967, the streamlined ferry plied the waters of Puget Sound, carrying commuting workers between Seattle and the naval shipyard in Bremerton. View HistoryLink.org Essay 312 |
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Auctioned
off in 1967, the Kalakala
spent the next 31 years in Alaska,
serving as a fish processor. The vessel returned to Seattle on November
6, 1998. After failed
attempts to raise sufficient funds to restore her, she was auctioned
off, moved to Neah
Bay, removed
from Neah Bay,
and in September 2004 moved to Tacoma.
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Peralta
1928
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The
Kalakala
was originally built by the Moore Shipbuilding Company and named the
Peralta. She hesitated on her 1927 launch,
the sure sign of a bad luck ship, according to many seafarers. For six
years,
she operated as the Peralta, a
double-ended ferry on the Oakland to San Francisco run. But on
the night of May 6, 1933, the Peralta
burned to her waterline. Alexander Peabody, president of Seattle’s
Puget Sound Navigation Company, purchased the hull for $10.00 and towed
it to
the Lake Washington Shipyards in Kirkland
for a dramatic redesign.
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 Official Number: 226244 Radio Call Numbers: WA6703 Peralta Built in Oakland, CA, 1926. Kalakala Built on Peralta's Hull, Houghton, WA, 1934-35. Length 276.5 Beam: 55.7' Draft: 16' Autodeck Clearance: 11.2' Propulsion: direct drive Busch-Sulzer diesel, 3000 HP Speed: 16 knots Autos: 110 Passengers: 1,943 Gross/Net Tons 1417/963 Name Translation: Chinook jargon, "Flying Bird" Drawing by Johan Iversen |
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