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

Alki-Manchester Ferry

The Alki-Manchester ferry was a ferry route in Washington State that from 1925 to 1936 ran between Alki Point and Manchester, Washington across Puget Sound.-History:...

 route on Puget Sound

Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a sound in the U.S. state of Washington. It is a complex estuarine system of interconnected marine waterways and basins, with one major and one minor connection to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Pacific Ocean — Admiralty Inlet being the major connection and...

 in Washington state.

On May 20, 1942, the Crosline arrived in Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 to join Burrard Inlet ferries

SeaBus

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. It was purchased because of the need for more ferries to take shipyard workers to the north shore

North Vancouver, British Columbia

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. In 1947, after the war, the Crosline was sold to the ferry system

Washington State Ferries

Washington State Ferries is a passenger and automobile ferry service owned and operated by the Washington State Department of Transportation that serves communities on Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands. It is the most used ferry system in the world and the largest passenger and automobile...

 of the Washington State Department of Highways

Washington State Department of Transportation

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 where it was rebuilt.

The Crosline 's last trip was the 9:55 p.m. departure on Labor Day

Labor Day

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 of 1967. The ferry system sold the ship later in the year on December 19th. It was first used as a warehouse on Lake Union

Lake Union

Lake Union is a freshwater lake entirely within the Seattle, Washington city limits.-Origins:A glacial lake, its basin was dug 12,000 years ago by the Vashon glacier, which also created Lake Washington and Seattle's Green, Bitter, and Haller Lakes.-Name:...

, than sold again in 1975, where it was moved to Coos Bay, Oregon

Coos Bay, Oregon

Coos Bay is a city located in Coos County, Oregon, United States, where the Coos River enters Coos Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The city borders the city of North Bend, and together they are often referred to as one entity called either Coos Bay-North Bend or the Bay Area...

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. Croslines hull was eventually disassembled, and the remaining timbers and planks became part of a fishing boat and a dock.