Ferryboat Santa Rosa

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Career
Name:	1927-1940: MV Santa Rosa 1940-1989: MV Enetai 1989-present: Ferryboat Santa Rosa
Owner:	1927-1940: Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Ltd 1940-1951: Puget Sound Navigation Company 1951-1968: WSDOT 1989-present: Hornblower Cruises & Events
Operator:	1927-1940: Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Ltd 1940-1951: Black Ball Line 1951-1968: Washington State Ferries 1989-present: Hornblower Cruises & Events
Port of Registry:	1940-1968: Seattle,  USA
Completed:	Built: 1927 Refit: 1941 Refit: 1989
In service:	1927
Out of service:	1968
Fate:	Converted to banquet facility and office space
Status:	Retired
Notes:	Official Number: 226599 Call Sign: WA4715[1]
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type:	Steel Electric Class auto/passenger ferry
Length:	256 ft (78 m)
Installed power:	Total 2,400 hp from 2 x Diesel-Electric engines
Speed:	12 kn (22 km/h/14 mph)
Capacity:	616 passengers 59 vehicles
General characteristics (after 1941 refit)
Type:	single ended auto/passenger ferry
Length:	256 ft (78 m)
Beam:	66 ft (20.1 m)
Draft:	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Deck clearance:	12 ft (3.7 m)
Installed power:	Direct drive Busch-Sulzer diesel, 2,800 HP
Speed:	15 kn (28 km/h/17 mph)
Capacity:	1,500 passengers 90 vehicles[1]
General characteristics (after 1989 refit)
Type:	restored to original 1927 external appearance, deck converted to banquet facility and offices
Capacity:	500 passengers[2]

The Ferryboat Santa Rosa was originally built as the Steel Electric Class ferry MV Santa Rosa in Alameda, California for Northwestern Pacific Railroad, she started out serving Southern Pacific Railways on their Golden Gate Ferries line on San Francisco Bay.

She was purchased by the Puget Sound Navigation Company in 1940, and moved to Puget Sound. Puget Sound Navigation Company, believing that a single ended ferry would be more economical and faster, replaced her engines and converted her to a single-ended ferry, effectively making her no longer a true Steel Electric Class ferry. She was also renamed the MV Enetai, which is the name she kept when she was later acquired by Washington State Ferries who took over operations in 1951.^[1] The ferry was returned to San Francisco after her sale in 1968, but sat largely unused until purchased by Hornblower Cruises & Events in 1989. Hornblower restored her aft wheelhouse in an attempt to make her look like her original profile from 1927, however the passenger cabin retained the remodeled outline from her conversion to a single ender back in 1941.^[3] She is currently moored at Pier 3 in San Francisco, where she serves both as office space and as a rental facility.^[2]

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