Posted on April 4, 2018December 8, 2018 by Erik Chipchase How the Kalakala looked when I saw her last. Ferry Kalakala was launched from the Lake Washington Shipyards, in Kirkland, 1935. Between 1935 and 1967, the streamlined ferry plied the waters of Puget Sound, carrying commuting workers between Seattle and the naval shipyard in Bremerton.