_{The other Washington precursor in some ways to the Kulshan (II). Captain Raymond W. Hughes collection.}

BUILT: 1923 at St. Helens, Oregon, for use on the Columbia River

OFFICIAL NUMBER: 222912

L/B/D:  120 x 36 x 9 GROSS/NET TONS: 95/64

HISTORY: Purchased by Black Ball in 1930 from the Longview Ferry Company, the Washington was likely put out of work but the new Longview Bridge.  Black Ball assigned her to the Mukilteo-Columbia Beach run.

For the next eight years or so, the Washington provided service on the route with the converted steamer Puget.  It seems that the open-decked Washington was primarily a secondary service vessel, working the busier summer schedule and occasionally into fall, but taking the winters off.

By 1939, with Black Ball having absorbed the Kitsap County Transportation Company and having purchased the first round of larger ferries from San Francisco, the smaller vessels began to disappear.  The 1939 schedule notes the much larger ferry Bainbridge  working the route.  

FINAL DISPOSITION:  Abandoned/scrapped 1942.