OLYMPIA — The campaign to name the Port Townsend-Keystone ferry now under construction after Chetzemoka, the Klallam chief who befriended 19th century settlers, was won today when the state Transportation Commission agreed to the idea.
The 64-car ferry is currently being built at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle.
The Chetzemoka will be the first new Washington State Ferry to go into service in a decade.
But it won’t be the first ferry to carry the name of the Klallam chief. The first Chetzemoka sailed under private ownership between Port Townsend and Edmonds from 1938 to 1947.
A campaign led by the Jefferson County Historical Society to name the new ferry Chetzemoka was mounted over the summer.
