MV Kwasind
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| Name: | Kwasind |
| Owner: | Royal Canadian Yacht Club |
| Builder: | Polson Iron Works Limited, Toronto |
| Launched: | 1912 |
| In service: | 27 June 1912 |
| Identification: | Official number: 130318 |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2014[update] |
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| Length: | 71 ft (22 m) |
| Beam: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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M/V 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 $13,000. Her name was taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem about Hiawatha, as the yacht club's previous ferry is the Hiawatha.[4]
The 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 the Kwasind, and the yacht club's older ferry, the Hiawatha, were sunk by vandals.[5] The Kwasind was refloated, and was back in working order the day of the sinking, while the Hiawatha required further repair.[6]
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