The Jumbo Mark II-class ferries are a series of

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built for

Washington State Ferries Washington State Ferries (WSF) is a government agency that operates automobile and passenger ferry service in the U.S. state of Washington as part of the Washington State Department of Transportation. It runs ten routes serving 20 terminals loc ...

(WSF) between 1997 and 1999, at

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. Each ferry can carry up to 2,500 passengers and 202 vehicles, making them the largest ferries in the

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, and the second longest double-ended ferries in the world. They all have full galley service and a "quiet room" upstairs. Ferries in this class include: * ''Puyallup'' * ''Tacoma'' * ''Wenatchee'' In 2019, WSF decided to convert them to battery electric propulsion by switching two of the four engines in each ferry with batteries, starting with ''Wenatchee''.

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