Incat

Incat Group of Companies
Type Proprietary Limited Company
Industry Shipbuilding
Founded 1977
Headquarters Hobart, Tasmania
Products Wave Piercing Catamarans
Website www.incat.com.au

Incat is a manufacturer of large HSC catamarans, based in the Derwent Park suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia founded by Bob Clifford. The company builds large commercial and military vessels that use aluminium construction, wave-piercing and water-jet technology. Vessels have been constructed up to 112 metres in length and cruise at 40 knots (75 km/h).

Several catamarans built by Incat have entered naval services, including HMAS Jervis Bay, 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 1990s and early 2000s the company was in severe financial difficulties 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 overseas customers and the US military.

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Legal Dispute with Austal Ships

Since 2007, Incat and Austal, its main competitor in Australia, have been involved in a legal dispute over the ownership and transfer of sensitive documents between the companies. [1] .[2]

Deliveries

Hull No Model Current name Operator Notes
020 30m Cat Our Lady Patricia Wightlink Scrapped, Marchwood, UK, Late 2008
021 30m Cat Our Lady Pamela Wightlink Laid up
022 37m WPC Sea Flight Cruise Whitsundays Great Barrier Reef tours QLD Australia
023 74m WPC Emeraude France None Laid up, Tilbury, UK
024 74m WPC Patricia Olivia Baleària
025 74m WPC Sea Runner Princess Cruises
026 74m WPC Snaefell Isle of Man Steam Packet Company
027 74m WPC Pescara Jet SNAV
028 74m WPC Cyclades Express NEL Lines
030 74m WPC Condor 10 Condor Ferries
031 74m WPC Mandarin Dae-A Express Shipping Co Ltd
032 74m WPC Atlantic III Buquebus
033 78m WPC Jaume 1 Baleària
034 78m WPC Elanora El Salam Maritime
035 78m WPC Mega Jet Seajets
036 70m K50 Juan Patricio Buquebus
037 78m K50 Sunflower Dae-A-Gosok
038 81m WPC Jaume II Baleària
039 Project R & D Craft
040 81m WPC Stena Lynx III Stena Line
041 81m WPC Jaume III Baleària
042 86m WPC Condor Express Condor Ferries
043 86m WPC Tarifa Jet FRS
044 86m WPC Condor Vitesse Condor Ferries
045 86m WPC Condor Rapide Condor Ferries
046 91m WPC Incat 046 Trinidad and Tobago Government Marketed as T&T Express
047 91m WPC Express P&O Irish Sea
048 91m WPC Max Mols Mols-Linien
049 91m WPC Fjord Cat Fjord Line
050 96m WPC Manannan Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Previously HSV-X1 Joint Venture
051 96m WPC Bonanza Express Fred. Olsen Express
052 96m WPC Alboran Acciona Trasmediterranea
053 96m WPC Bencomo Express Fred. Olsen Express
055 96m WPC Bentago Express Fred. Olsen Express
056 96m WPC Highspeed 6 Hellenic Seaways
057 98m WPC Normandie Express Brittany Ferries
058 98m WPC Milenium Dos Acciona Trasmediterranea
059 98m WPC Hai Xia Haohai Xia Hao Fujian Cross Strait Ferry
060 98m WPC T&T Spirit Trinidad and Tobago Government Previously TSV-1X Spearhead
061 98m WPC HSV-2 Swift US Navy
062 98m WPC Milenium Tres Acciona Trasmediterranea
063 17m WPC Sixty Three 17m Projects Pty Ltd
064 112m WPC Natchan Rera Higashi Nihon Ferry Company
065 112m WPC Natchan World Higashi Nihon Ferry Company
066 112m WPC Norman Arrow LD Lines
067 112m WPC under construction
068 85m WPC under construction
069 99m WPC under construction Buquebus

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