# MV Illahee

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MV Illahee History Name 1927-1940: Lake Tahoe 1940-2009: Illahee Owner 1927-1940: Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Ltd 1940-1951: Puget Sound Navigation Company 1951-2009: WSDOT Operator 1927-1940: Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Ltd 1940-1951: Black Ball Line 1951-2007: Washington State Ferries Port of registry Seattle, Washington USA Ordered September 18, 1926 Builder Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California Completed Built: 1927 First Refit: 1958 Second Refit: 1986 In service 1927 Out of service November 20, 2007 Identification IMO number: 8836091 Official Number: 226588 Call sign: WXT9366 Fate Scrapped in 2009, Ensenada, Mexico General characteristics Class & type Steel Electric-class auto/passenger ferry Length 256 ft 2 in (78 m) Beam 73 ft 10 in (22.5 m) Draft 12 ft 9 in (3.9 m) Deck clearance 12 ft 7 in (3.8 m) Installed power Total 2,896 hp (2,160 kW) from 2 x diesel-electric engines Speed 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) Capacity 616 passengers 59 vehicles (max 24 commercial)[1]

**MV *Illahee*** was a [Steel Electric-class](/source/Steel_Electric-class_ferry) [ferry](/source/Ferry) operated by [Washington State Ferries](/source/Washington_State_Ferries).

Originally built as MV *Lake Tahoe* in [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland%2C_California) for the [Southern Pacific Railroad](/source/Southern_Pacific_Railroad), she started out serving on SP's Golden Gate Ferries subsidiary on [San Francisco Bay](/source/San_Francisco_Bay). She was purchased by the [Puget Sound Navigation Company](/source/Puget_Sound_Navigation_Company) in 1940, and she was moved to [Puget Sound](/source/Puget_Sound) and renamed *Illahee* until [Washington State Ferries](/source/Washington_State_Ferries) acquired and took over operations in 1951.[2]

She was serving on the inter-island route in the [San Juan Islands](/source/San_Juan_Islands) when the entire Steel Electric class was [withdrawn from service](/source/Steel_Electric-class_ferry#Corrosion_and_2007_withdrawal_from_service) on November 20, 2007[3] due to hull corrosion issues.

In the summer of 2009, *Illahee* and her sisters were sold to Eco Planet Recycling, Inc. of Chula Vista, California. In August 2009 the ferry was towed out of Eagle Harbor and was scrapped in Ensenada, Mexico.[4]

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Vessel Information on the MV *Illahee*](http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/your_wsf/our_fleet/index.cfm?vessel_id=51) - WSDOT, WSF

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [The MV *Illahee*](http://www.evergreenfleet.com/illaheeretired.html) - evergreenfleet.com

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Crucial Car Ferry Likely Out For A Year Or More"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101204010828/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004064725_ferry11m.html). *Seattle Times*. December 11, 2007. Archived from [the original](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004064725_ferry11m.html) on 2010-12-04.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [The MV *Illahee*](http://www.evergreenfleet.com/illaheeretired.html) - evergreenfleet.com

## References

- Kline, Mary S., and Bayless, G.A., *Ferryboats -- A Legend on Puget Sound*, Bayless Books, Seattle, WA 1983 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-914515-00-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-914515-00-4)

## See also

Media related to [Category:Illahee (ship, 1927)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Illahee_(ship,_1927)) at Wikimedia Commons

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