MV Taku
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History | |
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Name | Taku |
Namesake | Taku Glacier, Juneau, Alaska |
Owner | Alaska Marine Highway System |
Port of registry | United States |
Builder | Puget Sound Bridge & Dry Dock Company, Seattle, Washington |
Cost | $4.5 Million USD[1] |
Launched | 2 July 1962[2] |
Commissioned | 1963 |
Identification |
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Fate | Scrapped 21 April 2018 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Malaspina-class mainline ferry |
Tonnage | 2,625 Domestic 7,302 International[clarification needed][3] |
Displacement | 4,283 long tons (4,352 t)[3] |
Length | 352 ft (107 m)[3] |
Beam | 74 ft (23 m)[3] |
Draft | 16 ft 11 in (5.16 m)[3] |
Decks | One vehicle deck, three passenger decks [4] |
Ramps | Aft, port, and starboard ro-ro loading |
Installed power | Two 4,000 hp MaK Diesel engines [4] |
Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)[3] |
Capacity |
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Crew | 42[3] |
M/V Taku is a Malaspina-class mainline vessel built for the Alaska Marine Highway System. The ship has been retired and was sold to a Dubai-based company for $171,000.[5] The owner sought to sell the ferry internationally, and was unsuccessful, and it was last seen beached in Alang, India, to be scrapped.
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