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M/V Lefkipos (ship)
Corporate body · 1936 - 1979

Steel single screw freighter, 4,982 tons gross. Built in the United Kingdom as Wearpool. She was sold to Swedish owners in 1954 and renamed Adelso. She was then sold to Greek owners in 1964 and renamed Lefkipos. In 1971, she was renamed Dimitros. She was scrapped in 1979.

M/V Klondike IV (ship)
Corporate body · 1969 - 1989

Steel diesel-powered freighter, 8,043 tons gross. Operated by White Pass & Yukon Railroad on coastal service. Scrapped in 1989.

M/V Klipfontein (ship)
Corporate body · 1922 - 1935

Two Dutch merchant ships have had this name. The vessel cited in the Ohnick Fonds would have been a 5,544 ton cargo vessel with passenger accommodation of the Vereenidge Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschappij (United Netherlands Navigation Company), built in 1922 and sold to Italian owners in1935. Klipfontein is a town in South Africa.

M/V Kalakala (ship)
Corporate body · 1927 - 2015

Displacement 1,519 tons. Built in 1927 as the San Francisco Bay ferry Peralta, she was rebuilt as a Puget Sound ferry and renamed in 1935. She operated as a ferry with futuristic art deco streamlined superstructure from 1935 to 1967. She sailed on Puget Sound and later on Port Angeles to Victoria run for Black Ball Line from 1945 to 1960. In 1967, she was sold to American Freezer Ships Dutch Harbour Alaska to become a fish cannery. In 1998, she returned to Washington State and was scrapped in 2015.

M/V Kaisun (ship)
Corporate body

Vessel was owned by the Canadian Fishing Company, fished B.C. coastal waters in 1949 with repower from a Caterpillar D13000 marine diesel engine generating 115hp at 900 rpm.