page_title: Washington State Ferries
section_title: Fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Washington State Ferries / Fleet
caption_attribution_description: English: M/V Tacoma arriving at Pier 52 Seattle after sailing from Bainbridge Island. Photo taken from a harbor tour boat.
context_page_description: Washington State Ferries is a government agency that operates automobile and passenger ferry service in the U.S. state of Washington as part of the Washington State Department of Transportation. It runs ten routes serving 20 terminals located around Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands, designated as part of the state highway system. The agency maintains the largest fleet of ferries in the United States at 23 vessels, carrying 24.2 million passengers in 2016. As of 2016, it was the largest ferry operator in the United States, and the fourth-largest ferry system in the world.
context_section_description: As of April 17, 2020, there are 21 ferries on Puget Sound operated by the state. The largest vessels in this fleet carry up to 2500 passengers and 202 vehicles. They are painted in a distinctive white and green trim paint scheme, and feature double-ended open vehicle decks and bridges at each end so that they do not need to turn around.
  The ferry fleet consists of the following vessels:
caption: Washington State Ferry Tacoma
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