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Wikipedia / High-speed craft

A high-speed craft (HSC) is a high-speed water vessel for civilian use, also called a fastcraft or fast ferry. The first high-speed craft were often hydrofoils or hovercraft, but in the 1990s catamaran and monohull designs become more popular. Most high-speed craft serve as passenger ferries, but the largest catamarans and monohulls also carry cars, buses, large trucks and freight.

In the 1990s there were a variety of builders, but due to HSC high fuel consumption, many shipbuilders have withdrawn from this market so the construction of the largest fast ferries, up to 127 metres, has been consolidated to two Australian companies, Austal of Perth and Incat of Hobart. There is still a wide variety of builders for smaller fast catamaran ferries between 24 and 60 metres.

Hulled designs are often powered by pump-jets coupled to medium-speed diesel engines. Hovercraft are usually powered by gas turbines or diesel engines driving propellers and impellers.

The design and safety of high-speed craft is regulated by the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention, Chapter 10, High-Speed Craft (HSC) Codes of 1994 and 2000, adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

In accordance with SOLAS Chapter 10 Reg. 1.3, high-speed craft are craft capable of a maximum speed, in metres per second (m/s), equal to or exceeding:

= volume of displacement in cubic metres corresponding to the design waterline, excluding craft of which the hull is supported clear above the water surface in non-displacement mode by aerodynamic forces generated by ground effect.

HSC examples

  1. Alstom Leroux Naval

  2. SuperRunner Jet II

  3. Austal

  4. Auto Express 86-class ferry

  5. Hawaii Superferry

  6. HSC Olympic Champion Jet

  7. , world's largest civilian trimaran

  8. (Lake Michigan)

  9. WorldChampion Jet

  10. Buquebus

  11. HSC Francisco

  12. Catamaran Ferries International

  13. PacifiCat-class ferry

  14. Dakota Creek Industries

  15. Passenger-Only Fast Ferry-class ferry

  16. Empresa Nacional Bazán

  17. HSC Silvia Ana L

  18. Fincantieri

  19. HSC Golden Princess

  20. MDV 1200-class fast ferry

  21. Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding

    IHI Corporation

  22. SSTH Ocean Arrow

  23. Incat

  24. Madiba 1 - operated by falcon Marine

  25. , one of three similar 112-metre Incat vessels on this route

  26. HSV-2 Swift

  27. HSC Champion Jet 3

  28. Krasnoye Sormovo

  29. Raketa (hydrofoil)

  30. Ocean Fast Ferries

  31. OceanJet 1

  32. OceanJet 2

  33. OceanJet 3

  34. OceanJet 5

  35. OceanJet 6

  36. OceanJet 7

  37. OceanJet 8

  38. OceanJet 88

  39. OceanJet 888

  40. OceanJet 188

  41. OceanJet 288

  42. OceanJet 9

  43. OceanJet 10

  44. OceanJet 11

  45. OceanJet 12

  46. OceanJet 15

  47. STX Finland

  48. Stena Line's HSS 1500

  49. Supercat

  50. St. Nuriel

  51. St. Sealthiel

  52. St. Emmanuel

  53. St. Uriel

  54. St. Jhudiel

  55. St. Braquiel

  56. St. Camael

  57. St. Sariel

  58. Sprint 1

  59. Westermoen Hydrofoil

  60. Stena Line's HSS 900

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