MV Walla Walla

History
The MV Walla Walla in Rich Passage
Name:	MV Walla Walla
Owner:	WSDOT
Operator:	Washington State Ferries
Port of registry:	Seattle, Washington, US
Route:	Seattle-Bremerton or Edmonds-Kingston (currently)
Builder:	Todd Shipyard, Seattle
Completed:	1972 Refurbished: 2005^[1]
Identification:	Official Number:546382 Call Sign: WYX2158^[1]
Status:	In Service
General characteristics
Class and type:	Jumbo Class auto/passenger ferry
Tonnage:	3,246 gross-tonnage 1,198 net-tonnage
Length:	440 ft (134 m)
Beam:	87 ft (27 m)
Draft:	18 ft (5 m)
Deck clearance:	15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power:	Total 11,500 hp from 4 x Diesel-Electric engines
Speed:	18 kn (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Capacity:	2,000 passengers 188 vehicles (max 60 commercial)^[2]

The MV Walla Walla is a Jumbo Class ferry operated by Washington State Ferries.

History

The Walla Walla was originally assigned to the San Juan Islands, however in its first year of service it was reassigned to the Seattle-Bainbridge route for which ridership better aligned with the high capacity of the Jumbo Class vessels.

After being replaced on the Seattle–Winslow route by the Jumbo Mark II Class ferry, the ship began serving as a fill-in vessel for whenever one of the larger ferries goes into scheduled maintenance periods; usually she can be found on either the Seattle-Bremerton or Edmonds-Kingston routes.^[1] Occasionally the Walla Walla will still end up filling in on the Seattle-Bainbridge Island run where it spent its early years. In late July 2014, the Jumbo Mark II class ferry, MV Wenatchee went up to Vancouver, BC for repairs. Since Washington State Ferries had no large backup vessels, the Walla Walla once again found herself on her old run, the Seattle-Winslow route. As a result, she was the other vessel on the route on the day the MV Tacoma suffered her massive electrical failure.

November 2012 incident

In early November 2012, during routine maintenance, one of the ship's four drive motors was damaged and failed after it overheated. The ferry was removed from service while a replacement was installed. WSDOT announced that if the damaged motor could be replaced with a spare already in its warehouse, the ferry could be back into service within several months.^[3]^[4] The spare motor was refurbished by General Electric in Los Angeles and then installed at Vigor Shipyards.^[5] The Walla Walla returned to service in April 2013.^[5]

References

1 2 3 The Walla Walla, evergreenfleet.com
↑ MV Walla Walla vessel info from WSDOT
↑ Walla Walla ferry out of service indefinitely – Seattle Times, retrieved November 9, 2012
↑ Electrical Accident Puts Walla Walla Ferry Out Of Service – KGMI, retrieved November 12, 2012
1 2 Frame, Susannah (March 11, 2013). "Report: Human error was cause of ferry maintenance accident". King5.com.

External links

Media related to Walla Walla (ship, 1972) at Wikimedia Commons

Washington State Ferries

Routes

Anacortes–San Juan Islands Edmonds–Kingston Fauntleroy–Vashon–Southworth Mukilteo–Clinton Point Defiance–Tahlequah Port Townsend–Coupeville Seattle–Bainbridge Seattle–Bremerton

Terminals

Colman Dock (Seattle)

Current fleet

Jumbo Mark-II-class	MV Tacoma MV Wenatchee MV Puyallup

Jumbo-class	MV Spokane MV Walla Walla

Super-class	MV Hyak MV Kaleetan MV Yakima MV Elwha

Olympic-class	MV Tokitae MV Samish MV Chimacum (under construction) MV Suquamish (under construction)

Issaquah 130-class	MV Cathlamet MV Chelan MV Issaquah MV Kitsap MV Kittitas

Issaquah-class	MV Sealth

Evergreen State-class	MV Klahowya MV Tillikum

Kwa-di Tabil-class	MV Chetzemoka MV Salish MV Kennewick

Retired fleet

Steel Electric-class	MV Enetai MV Illahee MV Klickitat MV Nisqually MV Quinault MV Willapa

Wood Electric-class	MV Chetzemoka (1927) MV Kehloken MV Klahanie

Evergreen State-class	MV Evergreen State

Skagit Kalama-class	MV Kalama MV Skagit

Passenger-Only Fast Ferry-class	MV Chinook MV Snohomish

No Class	MV Chippewa MV Crosline MV Hiyu MV Kalakala MV Kitsap (1925) MV Kulshan MV Leschi MV Olympic MV Rhododendron MV Rosario MV Saksnonia MV Tyee MV Vashon SS San Mateo SS Shasta

Ships designed by Philip F. Spaulding

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LeConte Class	MV LeConte MV Aurora

BC Ferries

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V Class

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C class

Black Ball Line

MV Coho

Golden Gate Ferry

MS MARIN
Sausalito
San Francisco

NOAA

MV Miller Freeman

San Diego and Coronado

MV Crown City

Washington State

Jumbo Class	MV Walla Walla MV Spokane

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