SEACAT FRANCE (Hoverspeed) b

photograph, publisher not stated, 

5.9" x 3.75", 145mm x 95mm (approx)

our ref: SRZ202

SEACAT FRANCE (Hoverspeed)

High speed craft built by Incat Catamarans, Hobart, that entered service in 1990 as Seacat Tasmania, chartered to Tasmania Ferry Service.From 1992 she was in service for Hoverspeed between Dover and Boulogne in the summer and operating in the southern hemisphere in the winter. Renamed Seacat Calais in the summer of 1993 before being renamed Atlantic II for a longer charter to Ferry Linas for service between Buenos Aires and Montevideo. In 1999 was back with Hoverspeed, then in 2000 was operated by S.N.A.V. as Croazia Jet between Ancona and Split. From 2002 was Seacat France for Hoverspeed (Dover to Calais) and from 2005 Emeraude France for Emeraude Ferries of Jersey (St. Malo to Jersey). She kept the name in 2007 when operated by the Isle Of Man Steam Packet. Laid up at Tilbury from 9/2007 until sold in 2014 to Sea & Sun Maritime, Piraeus, and renamed Superfast Cat, then Sea Speed Jet in 2015.