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The M/V Columbia is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. M/V Columbia at Bellingham Cruise Terminal Constructed in 1974 by Lockheed Shipbuilding in Seattle , Washington , the M/V Columbia has been the flagship vessel for the Alaska ferry system for over 40 years.
SS Columbia (1894), a British mail ship sold to France and sunk in World War I; SS Columbia (1896), a Canadian screw-driven tugboat; SS Columbia (1902 steamboat), an American excursion steamship; SS Columbia (1902 ocean liner), a Scottish passenger/cargo vessel originally named HMS Columbella and subsequently named Moreas, scrapped in Venice 1929
MV Columbia was a passenger motor vessel that was operated on the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia, Canada from 1948 to 1954. She was the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's last vessel in a long line of ships on the Arrow Lakes and was sold after the retirement of SS Minto to Ivan Horie, who continued a freight service for a few years.
The ferry system, taking advantage of her ocean-going status, sends the vessel on a monthly trans-Gulf of Alaska ("cross-gulf") voyage beginning in Juneau and concluding in Kodiak. On this voyage, the Kennicott is able to provide service to the isolated Gulf of Alaska community of Yakutat and is the only vessel to do so. The cross-gulf voyages ...
It was christened, received a tribal blessing, and began service on August 14, 2013, after the Martha S. docks were refit to handle the larger replacement vessel. [ 8 ] [ 10 ] The name "Sanpoil" is an Anglicized version of the name of the native peoples of the surrounding area, and is the name of the river adjacent SR 21 to the north of the ferry.
RV Sikuliaq is an American research vessel owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Built in 2014 by Marinette Marine Corporation in Marinette, Wisconsin, the $200 million vessel replaced the 1966-built research vessel Alpha Helix that was retired in 2007.
Colombo Express is a container ship. When launched in 2005, she was claimed by her owner to be the world's largest container ship , [ 2 ] a title she held until Emma Mærsk was launched in 2006. Colombo Express holds 8,749 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), 730 refrigerated (reefer) TEUs, is 335 metres (1,099 ft) long, and has a beam , or ...
Columbia at Detroit in 1973, taken from deck of sister ship, Ste. Claire Columbia was built in Wyandotte, Michigan , in 1902, and Ste. Claire was built in Toledo, Ohio , in 1910. The naval architect Frank Kirby designed a new steel support system for Columbia that allowed for the spans needed for a dance floor, thus Columbia was the first ...