The 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.