MV Kwasind
Canadian passenger ferry, 1912 onwards
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MV Kwasind is a passenger ferry built in 1912 for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[2][3] She is 71 feet (22 m) long. She was built by the Polson Iron Works and cost CA$13,000. Her name was taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem about Hiawatha, as the yacht club's previous ferry is Hiawatha.[4]
Kwasind, Royal Canadian Yacht Club Ferry | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada | |
| Name | Kwasind |
| Owner | Royal Canadian Yacht Club |
| Builder | Polson Iron Works Ltd., Toronto |
| Launched | 1912 |
| In service | 27 June 1912 |
| Identification | Official number: 130318 |
| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 71 ft (22 m) |
| Beam | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion |
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Kwasind has served as a ferry for the yacht club since 1912.[2] She was converted from a steam engine to a diesel engine in the 1940s.
On July 29, 2000, both Kwasind, and the yacht club's older ferry, Hiawatha, were sunk by vandals.[5] The Kwasind was refloated, and was back in working order the day of the sinking, while Hiawatha required further repair.[6]