 She was owned originally by the Kitsap County Transportation Company (KCTC), and was the first in a series of ferries (the others being the and ) that provided some serious competition to the Puget Sound Navigation Company (PSN), which was the other dominant ferry operator on Puget Sound.She first entered service on the Fauntleroy-Vashon route and sailed there until 1930 when she was moved over to the Suquamish-Ballard route.A strike in 1935 resulted in KCTC being acquired by PSN, making PSN the sole ferry operator on Puget Sound.