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Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
M/V Kalakala (ship)
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Description area
Dates of existence
1927 - 2015
History
Displacement 1,519 tons. Built in 1927 as the San Francisco Bay ferry Peralta, she was rebuilt as a Puget Sound ferry and renamed in 1935. She operated as a ferry with futuristic art deco streamlined superstructure from 1935 to 1967. She sailed on Puget Sound and later on Port Angeles to Victoria run for Black Ball Line from 1945 to 1960. In 1967, she was sold to American Freezer Ships Dutch Harbour Alaska to become a fish cannery. In 1998, she returned to Washington State and was scrapped in 2015.