MV Malaspina
MV ''Malaspina'', colloquially known as the ''Mal'', is a mainline ROPAX ferry and the original ''Malaspina''-class vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. ''Malaspina'' is named after the Malaspina Glacier, which, in turn, is named after Captain Don Alessandro Malaspina, Italian navigator and explorer who explored the northwest coast of North America in 1791. ''Malaspina'' is nearly identical to her sister ship, MV ''Matanuska''. ''Malaspina'' was designed by Philip F. Spaulding & Associates, constructed in 1963 at the Lockheed Shipbuilding yards in Seattle, Washington and elongated in 1972 at the Willamette Iron and Steel Company in Portland, Oregon. As a mainline ferry, she serves the larger of the Inside Passage communities, such as Ketchikan, Petersburg, and Sitka, but her route spans the entirety of the Inside Passage, beginning runs in either Bellingham, Washington, or Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada, and running to the northernmost Alaskan Panhandle commun ...
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