Ferry runs aground close to Seattle; no accidents reported

SEATTLE — A passenger ferry ran aground close to Bainbridge Island west of Seattle on Saturday however there have been no speedy reviews of accidents or contamination, authorities reported.

Washington State Ferries, a division of the state Division of Transportation, mentioned by way of Twitter that the vessel Walla Walla ran aground in Wealthy Passage at round 4:30 p.m. because it was touring from the town of Bremerton to Seattle.

“Preliminary indications are the vessel suffered a generator failure,” Washington State Ferries mentioned. A tug boat was dispatched to the scene, and officers have been opening an investigation.

The Pacific Northwest Coast Guard tweeted that it had crews on cutters and a helicopter responding to the scene.

It added that there have been “no reported accidents or any reviews of air pollution.”

The Division of Transportation mentioned on its web site that the Seattle-Bremerton route was out of service “attributable to a difficulty with” the Walla Walla.

The web site lists the vessel as a four-engine, jumbo class ferry with a most capability of two,000 passengers and 188 autos. It’s 440 toes in size with a draft of 18 toes.

The Walla Walla was constructed in 1973 in Seattle and rebuilt in 2003, in line with the positioning.