MV Tillikum off of Fauntleroy ferry terminal, Seattle
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Name: | MV Tillikum |
Owner: | WSDOT |
Operator: | Washington State Ferries |
Port of registry: | Seattle, Washington, United States |
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Status: | In Service |
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Class and type: | Evergreen State-class auto/passenger ferry |
Displacement: | 2413 |
Length: | 310 ft 2 in (94.5 m) |
Beam: | 73 ft 2 in (22.3 m) |
Draft: | 15 ft 6 in (4.7 m) |
Decks: | 3 |
Deck clearance: | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
Installed power: | Total 2,500 hp from 2 Diesel-Electric engines |
Propulsion: | DIESEL-ELECTRIC (AC) |
Speed: | 13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
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The MV Tillikum is an Evergreen State-class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.
The Tillikum was built in 1959 for service between Seattle and Bainbridge Island. Upon the delivery of the Super-class ferries in 1968, the Tillikum was moved to the Edmonds-Kingston run where it remained until approximately 1980. After being displaced by the Issaquah-class ferry Chelan in the early 1980s, the Tillikum spent roughly a decade as a relief boat before settling on the Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth run in the early 1990s. The Tillikum has been a reserve vessel since the delivery of the Samish in 2015. You can currently find her working weekdays as the fourth boat on the Anacortes-San Juan Islands-Sidney route.