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 and large hydrofoils and hovercraft are no longer built.
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In the 1990s there were a variety of builders, but many ship builders have withdrawn from this market so the construction of the largest fast ferries, up to 127 metres, has been consolidated to two Australian companies, Austal of Perth and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).[1]
In accordance with SOLAS Chapter 10 Reg. 1.3, high-speed crafts are crafts capable of a maximum speed, in metres per second (m/s), equal to or exceeding:
- 3.7×▽0.1667{displaystyle 3.7times triangledown ^{0.1667}}
where ▽{displaystyle triangledown } = 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.
Contents
1 HSC examples
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
HSC examples
- Austal
- Auto Express 86-class ferry
- Hawaii Superferry
- HSC Highspeed 7
HSC Benchijigua Express, world's largest civilian trimaran
- HSC Dolphin Jet
- HSC Jonathan Swift
HSC Lake Express (Lake Michigan)- HSC Leonora Christina
- HSC Villum Clausen
- Catamaran Ferries International
- PacifiCat-class ferry
- Dakota Creek Industries
- Passenger-Only Fast Ferry-class ferry
- Empresa Nacional Bazán
- HSC Silvia Ana L
- Fincantieri
- MDV 1200-class fast ferry
- IHI Corporation
- SSTH Ocean Arrow
- Incat
HSC KatExpress 1, one of three similar 112-metre Incat vessels on this route- HSC Tarifa Jet
- HSV-2 Swift
- HMAS Jervis Bay (AKR 45)
- Krasnoye Sormovo
- Raketa (hydrofoil)
- Ocean Fast Ferries
- OceanJet 1
- OceanJet 2
- OceanJet 3
- OceanJet 5
- OceanJet 6
- OceanJet 7
- OceanJet 8
- OceanJet 88
- OceanJet 888
- OceanJet 188
- OceanJet 288
- OceanJet 9
- OceanJet 10
- OceanJet 11
- OceanJet 12
- OceanJet 15
- STX Finland
Stena Line's HSS 1500
- Supercat
- St. Nuriel
- St. Sealthiel
- St. Emmanuel
- St. Uriel
- St. Jhudiel
- St. Braquiel
- St. Camael
- St. Sariel
- Westermoen Hydrofoil
Stena Line's HSS 900
See also
- List of high-speed craft ferry routes
- BGV
- Fast ferries (disambiguation)
References
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External links
- The Merchant Shipping (High-Speed Craft) Regulations 2004
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