The Jumbo class are two ferries that were built by
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 ...
in 1972 to supersede the . They have a capacity of 2,000 passengers and 188 vehicles.
Ferries in this class:
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History
By the late 1960s, Washington State Ferries was in need of new vessels to replace its aging fleet that required expensive upkeep. The extremely busy
Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry
The Seattle–Bainbridge ferry is a ferry route across Puget Sound between Seattle and Bainbridge Island, Washington. The route was called the Seattle–Winslow ferry before the city of Winslow annexed the rest of the island and changed its nam ...
route was also outgrowing the ferries that were delivered just five years earlier.
The solution was an even larger class of vessels. Instead of just expanding the Super class, the state picked a new design from Phillip Spaulding, that would have a long, low look. This new Jumbo-class vessel would be long, wide and could accommodate 206 vehicles, at the time, the largest double-ended ferries in the world.
Todd Shipyards
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in
Seattle
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was awarded the contract to construct two vessels, with plans to order two more if the ferries worked out. While the agency was pleased with the vessels, the funding for the second set of two ships never materialized.
The Jumbo-class vessels would be assigned to the Seattle–Bainbridge route for more than two decades, before they were displaced by the even larger ferries. Since then, the Jumbo-class vessels have been primarily assigned to the
Edmonds–Kingston and
Seattle–Bremerton routes.
References
External links
Washington DOT ferry class informationWashington State Ferries history
Washington State Ferries vessel classes
Ferry classes
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