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The ''Carlisle II'' is the oldest of only two operational examples of a Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet vessel. (The other is the 1922 Steamship ''Virginia V''.) They were once part of a large fleet of small passenger and freight carrying ships that linked the islands and ports of Puget Sound in Washington State in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ==History== ''Carlisle II'' was built in Bellingham in 1917 by Lummi Island Navigation Company, and first carried freight and passengers between Bellingham and the Carlisle Packing Company’s salmon cannery on Lummi Island. Original power was from a Fairbanks-Morse Type "C-O" Heavy Duty Marine Oil Engine. It was a three cylinder hot bulb (or "semi-diesel") engine rated 75 horsepower at 340 RPM.〔Pacific Fisherman Yearbook 1919〕〔Fairbanks-Morse Instructions pamphlet #2600 for Type "C-O" Heavy Duty Marine Oil Engines〕 In 1923 she was rebuilt as a car ferry and ran from Gooseberry Point to Lummi and Orcas islands.〔http://blog.seattlepi.com/kitsapandbeyond/2007/09/14/celebrate-the-carlisle-ii-turns-90/〕 Horluck Transportation Co., under Captain Willis Nearhoff, purchased the ''Carlisle II'' in 1936〔Some sources say 1934.〕 and converted her back to passenger vessel use for the short run between Bremerton and Port Orchard across Sinclair Inlet. The service was heavily used during the war years by personnel commuting to and from the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton. Eventually Mr. Nearhoff's daughter, Mary Lieske, became manager and then owner of the company. She was also reportedly the first woman ferry captain. Seattle businessman Hilton Smith bought out Horluck in 1995 and invested almost $300,000 in repairs and upgrades to ''Carlisle II''. In 2008, Kitsap Transit purchased the ''Carlisle II'' from Smith and continues to use her as needed on the Bremerton-Port Orchard run. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carlisle II」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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