image credit: Barnaby Dorfman ccThe ferry Kalakala operated for over thirty years, working on Puget Sands in the US State of Washington from 1935 to 1967. Her retirement from service has not, however, been a graceful one.
The world's first streamlined art-deco ship has been diversely beached in Alaska, used as a canning factory and evicted from her anchorage by an indigenous American tribe. Now moored at Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma, it is make or break time for the Motor Vessel Kalakala.
