Name Kwasind Status in active service Launched 1912 | In service 27 June 1912 Tonnage 46.96 GT31.94 NT Length 22 m | |
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Identification Official number 130318 | ||
Mv kwasind off the dock
M/V Kwasind is a passenger ferry built in 1912 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is 71 feet (22 m) long. She was built by the Polson Iron Works and cost $13,000. Her name was taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem about Hiawatha, as the yacht club's previous ferry is the Hiawatha.
The Kwasind has served as a ferry for the yacht club since 1912. She was converted from a steam engine to a diesel engine in the 1940s.
On July 29, 2000, both the Kwasind, and the yacht club's older ferry, the Hiawatha, were sunk by vandals. The Kwasind was refloated, and was back in working order the day of the sinking, while the Hiawatha required further repair.
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