The The Chinook was ordered by the Black Ball Line (aka The Puget Sound Navigation Company) right after the war. Captain Peabody of the line was looking for a modern ship to serve in the Seattle-Port Angles-Victoria run.
The ship was designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later design the SS United States and SS America.
Ship was built in Seattle at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle.
She could carry 100 cars and had staterooms to match. She was a very popular addition to the fleet but this did not stop the problems for the Black Ball Line and in 1951 Peabody lost control of his ships serving intra Washington state routes. He retained five ships, one of them was the Chinook. The Chinook continued the Port Angles to Victoria route til 1954.
Black Ball moved the ferry to the Horseshow Bay to Nanaimo route. She remained on that route till 1963 even after the 1961 nationalization of the Black Ball line by the Socreds
She was renamed the Sechelt Queen in 1963 and was moved to many runs over the next 13 years before being transferred to the Ministry of Highways and used on the Comox to Powell River run.
She remained in service till June 1982. She then remained in an odd limbo of possible projects until she was broken up in about 2001.
For more information about the MV Chinook/Sechelt Queen, check out this link:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/...
Original footage comes from this link:
https://youtu.be/l0FpYSC4rWEChinook was ordered by the Black Ball Line (aka The Puget Sound Navigation Company) right after the war. Captain Peabody of the line was looking for a modern ship to serve in the Seattle-Port Angles-Victoria run.
The ship was designed by William Francis Gibbs who would later design the SS United States and SS America.
Ship was built in Seattle at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle.
She could carry 100 cars and had staterooms to match. She was a very popular addition to the fleet but this did not stop the problems for the Black Ball Line and in 1951 Peabody lost control of his ships serving intra Washington state routes. He retained five ships, one of them was the Chinook. The Chinook continued the Port Angles to Victoria route til 1954.
Black Ball moved the ferry to the Horseshow Bay to Nanaimo route. She remained on that route till 1963 even after the 1961 nationalization of the Black Ball line by the Socreds
She was renamed the Sechelt Queen in 1963 and was moved to many runs over the next 13 years before being transferred to the Ministry of Highways and used on the Comox to Powell River run.
She remained in service till June 1982. She then remained in an odd limbo of possible projects until she was broken up in about 2001.
For more information about the MV Chinook/Sechelt Queen, check out this link:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/...
Original footage comes from this link:
https://youtu.be/l0FpYSC4rWE
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