Portsmouth Express
2000
(Rhenania Junior RJ-245a)
- Type: Passenger ferry
- Displacement: 5,902 gross register tons
- Dimensions: 299 x 85 x 12 ft.
- Machinery: Four 7200kW Caterpillar 3618 diesels, four waterjets = 42 knots
- Passengers: 900
- Vehicles: 220 vehicles
- Crew: 32
- Builder: Incat Tasmania, Derwent Park, Australia, 1998
- Notes: A wave piercing catamaran built as Catalonia by Incat, one of four sisters. During her delivery voyage she set the record for the fastest Atlantic eastbound crossing, traveling 3,125 mi from Manhattan to Tarifa, Spain in 3d 7h 54m for 38.877 knots. In 2000-2002 she was chartered to P&O Portsmouth for service between Portsmouth and Cherbourg, running under the name Portsmouth Express. She has run under various names in the Mediterranean, the English Channel, and the Irish Sea.
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