MV Willapa
watercraft
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- MV Willapa
- IMO number
- 7619795
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
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- Vessel type
- watercraft
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
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- Length overall
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- Beam
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- Year built
- 1927
- Builder
- Bethlehem Steel
- Registered owner
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- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About MV Willapa
MV Willapa was a car ferry that served on the San Francisco Bay and later on Puget Sound. She was one of the Steel Electric-class ferries built in 1927 for service across the San Francisco Bay. Originally named MV Fresno, she was operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad and provided ferry service across the bay. Fresno served on the San Francisco Bay for ten years, when the completion of the San Francisco Bay Bridge in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937 made the ferries no longer necessary. In 1940, all six Steel Electric ferries were purchased by Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSN) and they were brought up the coast to Puget Sound two at a time, allowing PSN to modernize their ferry fleet. These ferries were all renamed—Fresno was renamed Willapa—and two of them were significantly modified to be single-ended ferries for use on the Seattle-Bremerton ferry route.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is MV Willapa now?
- MV Willapa has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is MV Willapa?
- MV Willapa is a watercraft, built in 1927 by Bethlehem Steel.
- Has MV Willapa been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for MV Willapa appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).