HMAS Jervis Bay (AKR 45)
HMAS Jervis Bay in 2000
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| Namesake: | Jervis Bay |
| Builder: | Incat, Tasmania |
| Launched: | November 1997 |
| Commissioned: | 10 June 1999 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 May 2001 |
| Motto: | "Strive Valiantly" |
| Nickname(s): | Dili Express |
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| Status: | Returned to civilian service |
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| General characteristics in military service | |
| Type: | Wave-piercing catamaran |
| Displacement: | 1,250 tons |
| Length: | 86.62 m (284.2 ft) |
| Beam: | 26 m (85 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.6 m (12 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × Ruston 20RK270 medium-speed diesels; 4 × Lips waterjets |
| Speed: | 48 knots (89 km/h; 55 mph) |
| Range: | 1,000 nautical miles (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) |
| Troops: | 500 soldiers, plus equipment and light vehicles |
| Complement: | 20 |
| Armament: | 2 × 7.6 mm (0.30 in) guns |
HMAS Jervis Bay (AKR 45) was a wave piercing catamaran that operated in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
Built by Incat in Tasmania and launched in 1997 as Incat 045, the ship was chartered to TT-Line as Tascat to supplement cross-Bass Strait services until the company acquired new ships. The catamaran remained laid up until 1999, when she was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as a troop and equipment transport, becoming the first large catamaran to enter naval service. Jervis Bay operated in support of the INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce until May 2001, when she was decommissioned and returned to the builder.
In 2002, the ferry was sent to Europe, operating briefly in the Mediterranean before being chartered by Speed Ferries for a cross-English Channel ferry service as HSC SpeedOne. She is now owned by Condor Ferries and is named HSC Condor Rapide.
The ship was laid down as Incat 045 in 1997, at Incat's shipyards in Hobart, Tasmania. She was launched in November 1997. The catamaran had not been ordered by any company.
Four Ruston 20RK270 medium-speed diesels propel the catamaran at speeds of up to 45 knots (83 km/h; 52 mph).
The ship's first period of service was on charter to TT-Line, for service between Melbourne, Victoria and Devonport, Tasmania. Named Tascat, the ship ran in conjunction with the first Spirit of Tasmania until the new ferries Spirit of Tasmania I and Spirit of Tasmania II entered service, at which point she was laid up.
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