It looks like a ship from a parallel universe, but in fact she is the MV Kalakala, world's first streamlined, Art Deco vessel, in service as a luxurious passenger ferry in the Puget Sound from 1935 to 1967
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The spectacular, streamlined, porpoise-shaped, yet never built Ocean Liner designed in 1932 by Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958)
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Bel Geddes's Ocean Liner model "retains features of Valéry's 'objet ambigu'. One can see that it is a manmade machine, yet it nonetheless has taken on the appearance of a thing shaped by wind and water, like a smoothly polished bone" bit.ly/2xM8Ew9
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Bel Geddes's rendering of Airliner No. 4 (c. 1929-1932), charcoal on paper norman.hrc.utexas.edu/NBGPublic/deta
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From the Wiki (though maybe not a reliable source) - "Louis Proctor, an engineer for the Boeing Company, provided an early concept design."
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