Incat

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Incat Australia Pty Ltd
Type Proprietary Limited Company
Founded 1977
Headquarters Hobart, Tasmania
Industry Shipbuilding
Products Wave Piercing Catamarans
Website www.incat.com.au
Incat's Hobart Shipyard(to the right)
Incat's Hobart Shipyard(to the right)

International Catamarans, trading as Incat, is a manufacturer of large-scale HSC catamarans based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The company builds large commercial and military vessels that use aluminium construction, wave-piercing and water jet technology. Vessels have been constructed up to 98 metres in length and cruise at 40 knots. An Incat vessel is the holder of the Blue Riband Trophy for the fastest sea crossing of the Atlantic ocean.

Several catamarans built by Incat have entered naval services, including HMAS Jervis Bay (AKR-45), best known for its contribution to the INTERFET in East Timor, and HSV-1 Joint Venture and HSV-2 Swift, both having been in service with the US military.

In the late 90's and early 2000's the company was in severe financial strife and heavily in debt to the Tasmanian Government. It found its way out of this financial crisis after it received renewed contracts to build catamarans from oversees corporations and the US military.

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Yard No Model Current name Operator
020 30m Cat Our Lady Patricia Laid up - scrapped at Marchwood, late 2006
021 30m Cat Our Lady Pamela Wightlink
022 37m WPC Sea Flight Sea Flight Cruises
023 74m WPC Emeraude France Isle of Man Steam Packet Co.
024 74m WPC Patricia Olivia Buquebus
025 74m WPC Speed Runner 1 Aegean Speed Lines
026 74m WPC Sea Express 1 Isle of Man Steam Packet Co
027 74m WPC Pescara Jet SNAV
028 74m WPC Seacat Scotland Laid up
030 74m WPC Condor 10 Condor Ferries
031 74m WPC Mandarin Dae-A Express Shipping Co Ltd
032 74m WPC Atlantic III Navegacion Atlandia SA
033 78m WPC Jaume 1 Balearia
034 78m WPC Elanora El Salam
035 78m WPC Thundercat 1 FRS
036 70m K50 Juan Patricio Buquebus
037 78m K50 Sunflower Dae-A-Gosok
038 81m WPC Jaume II Balearia
039 Project R & D Craft
040 81m WPC Stena Lynx III Stena Line
041 81m WPC Seacat Diamant Balearia
042 86m WPC Condor Express Condor Ferries
043 86m WPC Tarifa Jet FRS
044 86m WPC Condor Vitesse Condor Ferries
045 86m WPC Jervis Bay / Speed One Speed Ferries
046 91m WPC The Lynx Trinidad & Tobago Govt
047 91m WPC Express P&O Irish Sea
048 91m WPC Max Mols Mols Linien
049 91m WPC Master Cat Master Ferries
050 96m WPC HSV X1 Joint Venture TACOM
051 96m WPC Bonanza Express Fred Olsen Lineas
052 96m WPC Alboran Acciona Trasmediterranea
053 96m WPC Bencomo Express Fred Olsen Lineas
055 96m WPC Bentago Express Fred Olsen Lineas
056 96m WPC Milenium Acciona Trasmediterranea
057 98m WPC Normandie Express Brittany Ferries
058 98m WPC Milenium Dos Acciona Trasmediterranea
059 98m WPC The Cat Bay Ferries
060 98m WPC TSV 1X Spearhead US Navy
061 98m WPC HSV-2 Swift US Navy
062 98m WPC Milenium Tres Acciona Trasmediterranea

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