MV Crosline

above : Crosline in Canadian service, circa 1943.
Career
Name:	Crosline
Owner:	Crosby Direct Line Ferries, Puget Sound Navigation Co., and others
Builder:	Marine Construction Co., Seattle, WA
Launched:	June 22, 1925
Out of service:	1967
Identification:	US registry #224839 ; Radio Call Letters: WH7219
Fate:	Converted to shoreside structure.
Notes:	Designed by L.H. Coolidge. Reconstructed 1947.
General characteristics
Type:	Inland steamboat
Length:	As built : 150 ft (45.72 m)
Beam:	As built :48 ft (14.63 m)
Installed power:	Originally : 750 HP Sumner heavy oil engine.
Capacity:	65 automobiles

The MV Crosline was a wooden, diesel ship launched in Seattle on June 22, 1925 for the Crosby Direct Line Ferry Company. It could carry 300 passengers and 65 cars.

Career

Crosline was originally built for the Alki-Manchester Ferry route on Puget Sound in Washington state.^[1]

On May 20, 1942, the Crosline arrived in Vancouver to join Burrard Inlet ferries. It was purchased because of the need for more ferries to take shipyard workers to the north shore. In 1947, after the war, the Crosline was sold to the ferry system of the Washington State Department of Highways where it was rebuilt.^[2]

The Crosline 's last trip was the 9:55 p.m. departure on Labor Day of 1967. The ferry system sold the ship later in the year on December 19th. It was first used as a warehouse on Lake Union, than sold again in 1975, where it was moved to Coos Bay, Oregon to be used as a restaurant. The restaurant failed, and instead her superstructure was removed to become a warehouse again, but this time shore-based. Crosline's hull was eventually disassembled, and the remaining timbers and planks became part of a fishing boat and a dock.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ Newell, ed., McCurdy Marine History, at page 366.
2. ^ ^{a b} Evergreenfleet.com (page on Crosline, with history and images (accessed 06-12-11)/

References

• History of Metropolitan Vancouver
• Evergreenfleet.com (page on Crosline, with history and images (accessed 06-12-11)
• Demoro, Harre, The Evergreen Fleet – A Pictorial History of Washington State Ferries, Golden West Books, San Marino CA (1971) ISBN 87095-037-1
• Kline, Mary S., and Bayless, G.A., Ferryboats -- A Legend on Puget Sound, Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983 ISBN 0-914515-00-4
• Newell, Gordon R. ed., H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, Superior Publishing, Seattle WA 1966 ISBN 0875642209