MV Lituya

The M/V "Lituya" is a shuttle ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway System.

The M/V "Lituya" was built by Conrad Shipyards in Morgan City, Louisiana in 2004. The "Lituya" is the smallest vessel in the ferry system and, as of 2006 exclusively serving the 16.5 nautical mile Metlakatla-Ketchikan shuttle route, thus making it the only AMHS vessel to serve Metlakatla. The Lituya is one of the three ferry system vessels designed to operate only in the day (the others are the fast ferries M/V "Chenega" and M/V "Fairweather") so it homeports in Metlakatla where its crew of six also resides. The "Lituya" has no food service on board and is also the only Alaska Marine Highway vessel to feature an open car deck (the design of the "Lituya" was based on offshore oil platform supply vessels).

External links

* [http://www.ferryalaska.com Official Alaska Marine Highway System website]