Lake Union
Sail On, Silver Girl: Remembering the Kalakala
One of Lake Union's most well-traveled vessels, pictured here in the year 1950.
Looking like a prop from a sci-fi movie, the MV Kalakala plied Puget Sound for 32 years, carrying an estimated 30 million passengers and motor vehicles between Seattle and Bremerton for the Puget Sound Navigation Company (1935-51) and Washington State Ferries (1951-67). Launched as the ferry Peralta in 1926, the vessel originally sailed between Oakland…