Black Ball Line’s MV Coho is a vehicle and passenger ferry operating between Victoria and Port Angeles.
MV Coho entering James Bay – Victoria
The design of the Coho was the basis for BC Ferries’ first two ships, the Sidney class Queen of Sidney and Queen of Tsawwassen. Coho was originally powered by two Cooper-Bessemer’s diesel engines rated at 2,080 BHP each. The Cooper-Bessemer’s were replaced in 2004 with two General Motors Electro-Motive Division Main Propulsion Engines rated at 2,550 BHP each.
- Built: 1959, Puget Sound Bridge & Dry Dock, Seattle, Washington
- Deadweight Gross Tonnage: 5366
- Net Tonnage: 3897
- Gross Tonnage5841
- Length: 341.5 ft (104.1 m)
- Beam: 72 ft (21.95 m)
- Draught: 12.6 ft (3.84 m)
- Propulsion: 2× EMD12-645F7B Diesels, 2,550 hp (1,900 kW) each
- Propellers: 2× 8-foot (2.44 m) stainless propellers with twin rudders
- Speed: 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
- Vehicle clearance: 14 feet (4.27 m)
- Capacity: 110 vehicles + 1,000 passengers
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