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Alaska Marine Highway. First founded in 1949. [1] Officially designated in 1963. [2] The Alaska Marine Highway (AMH) or the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) is a ferry service operated by the U.S. state of Alaska. It has its headquarters in Ketchikan, Alaska. [5] The Alaska Marine Highway System operates along the south-central coast of the ...
Original Welcome Aboard brochure from the Chilkat. Front. The M/V Chilkat was the first ferry purpose built for what was to become the Alaska Marine Highway.Originally built to serve the Lynn Canal out of Juneau, she was built with a bow ramp that allowed her 59 passengers and 15 vehicles to offload on an unimproved beach as well as a dock.
U.S. Marine Highway Program routes as of October 2023 Inland waterway connection. The United States Marine Highway Program is a United States Department of Transportation (DOT) initiative authorized to increase use of the United States' 29,000 mi (47,000 km) of navigable waterways to alleviate traffic and wear to the nation's highways caused by tractor trailer traffic.
The Alaska Marine Highway and several other Alaska highways or routes are recognized as "highways" eligible for federal funding by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). [3] The Marine Highway was declared a National Scenic Byway by the FHWA on June 13, 2002; [4] and later declared an All-American Road on September 22, 2005. [5]
250 passengers. 34 automobiles. Crew. 24 Billets. MV LeConte (/ ləˈkɒnteɪ / lə-KON-tay) is a feeder vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System, built in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in 1973 and commissioned in 1974 by Alaska's ferry system. LeConte is the older sister ship to M/V Aurora, and both serve as feeder vessels that pick up passengers ...
Tustumena. M/V Tustumena is a mainline ferry vessel for the Alaska Marine Highway System. [1] Tustumena was constructed in 1963 by Christy Corporation in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin [2] and refurbished in 1969 in San Francisco. As the only mainline ferry in South-central Alaska and the Aleutian Chain, it principally runs between Kodiak, Seldovia ...
Ketchikan, Alaska seen from Tongass Narrows in August 2009. Tongass Narrows is a Y-shaped channel, part of Southeast Alaska's Inside Passage.The waterway forms part of the Alaska Marine Highway and as such, is used by charter, commercial fishing, and recreational vessels, as well as commercial freight barges and tanks, kayaks and passenger ferries.
P. Petersburg Ferry Terminal. Categories: All-American Roads. Ferry companies of Alaska. State agencies of Alaska. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after transportation companies of the United States.