T.E.V. Peralta (MV Kalakala)

Kalakala was constructed for the Key System's ferryboat service on San Francisco Bay between Oakland and San Francisco. She was called Peralta in honor of one of the region's early Spanish founding families. Five passengers were killed in a fire on February 17th, 1928, while mooring in Oakland, California. In 1933 the vessel was sold to the Puget Sound Navigation Company and re-erected as a ferry. In November 1934, William O. Thorniley, publicist for PSNC and president of the Olympic Peninsula Travel Association, called the renovated ferry Kalakala, which was said to signify "bird"