{{Short description|Canadian ferry boat}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=Crosline.jpg |image_caption=''above'' : ''Crosline'' in service, prior to 1940. When serving in Vancouver BC, the auto deck was enclosed for passenger-only service; upon her return to the United States, the ferry was converted to double-ended operation. }}

|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |name=''Crosline'' |owner= [[Crosby Direct Line Ferries]], [[Puget Sound Navigation Co.]], and others |operator= |registry= |route= |ordered= |builder= [[Marine Construction Co.]], [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle, WA]] |original_cost= |yard_number= |way_number= |laid_down= |launched= June 22, 1925 |completed= |christened= |acquired= |maiden_voyage= |in_service=1925 |out_of_service= 1967 |identification= US registry #224839; Radio Call Letters: WH7219 |fate= Converted to shoreside structure. |notes= Designed by L.H. Coolidge. Reconstructed 1947. }}

|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |type=Auto/ passenger [[ferry]] |tonnage= |displacement= |length=As built : {{convert|150|ft|m|2|abbr=on}} |beam= As built :{{convert|48|ft|m|2|abbr=on}} |height= |draft= |decks= |deck_clearance= |ramps= |power= Originally : 750 [[horsepower|HP]] Sumner diesel engine. |propulsion= |speed= |capacity=65 automobiles |crew= |notes= }} }}

The '''MV ''Crosline''''' was a wooden, diesel ship launched in [[Seattle]] on June 22, 1925 for the [[Crosby Direct Line Ferry Company]]. It could carry 300 passengers and 65 cars.

==Career== ''Crosline'' was originally built for the [[Alki-Manchester Ferry]] route on [[Puget Sound]] in Washington state.<ref name = McCurdy>Newell, ed., ''McCurdy Marine History'', at page 366.</ref>

On May 20, 1942, the ''Crosline'' arrived in [[Vancouver]] to join the [[SeaBus#History|Burrard Inlet ferries]]. It was purchased because of the need for more ferries to take shipyard workers to the [[North Vancouver (city)|north shore]]. In 1947, after the war, the Crosline was sold to the ferry system of the [[Washington State Department of Transportation|Washington State Department of Highways]] where it was rebuilt into a double-ended ferry with a pilothouse and propulsion on both ends of the ferry. It served with the {{MV|Skansonia}} on the route between [[Gig Harbor, Washington|Gig Harbor]] and [[Point Defiance Park|Point Defiance]] until 1950, when the [[Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1950)|second Tacoma Narrows Bridge]] opened. In 1951, [[Washington State Ferries]] was formed when the state acquired almost all of the [[Puget Sound Navigation Company|Black Ball Line]]'s assets, and the ''Crosline'' joined WSF's fleet.<ref name = Evergreen>[https://evergreenfleet.com/crosline/ Evergreenfleet.com (page on ''Crosline'', with history and images)]. Retrieved 06-12-11</ref>

The ''Crosline''{{'}}s last trip was the 9:55&nbsp;p.m. departure on [[Labor Day]] of 1967. The ferry system sold the ship later in the year on December 19. It was first used as a warehouse on [[Lake Union]], than sold again in 1975, where it was moved to [[Coos Bay, Oregon]] to be used as a restaurant. The restaurant failed, and instead her superstructure was removed to become a warehouse again, but this time shore-based. ''Crosline''{{'}}s hull was eventually disassembled, and the remaining timbers and planks became part of a fishing boat and a dock.<ref name = Evergreen/>

==Notes== {{reflist}}

==References== *[http://www.vancouverhistory.ca History of Metropolitan Vancouver] * [https://evergreenfleet.com/crosline/ Evergreenfleet.com (page on ''Crosline'', with history and images] (accessed 06-12-11) * {{cite book |last=Demoro |first=Harre W. |author-link=Harre W. Demoro |year=1971 |title=The Evergreen Fleet: A Pictorial History of Washington State Ferries |publisher=[[Golden West Books]] |location=San Marino, California |isbn=9780870950377 |oclc=141974}} * Kline, Mary S., and Bayless, G.A., ''Ferryboats -- A Legend on Puget Sound'', Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983 {{ISBN|0-914515-00-4}} * Newell, Gordon R. ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing, Seattle WA 1966 {{ISBN|0-87564-220-9}}

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