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Vessels

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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 po ...
, a high-speed water vessel also called a fast ferry **
List of HSC ferry routes This is a list of high-speed craft ferry routes. Many routes are operated by catamarans, as catamarans are a faster craft than a similar sized monohulls. In the 1990s monohull HSCs with capacity for cars and buses have taken over many routes. Ca ...
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Passenger-Only Fast Ferry-class ferry The Passenger-Only Fast Ferry ferries were built by Dakota Creek Industries in Anacortes, Washington for Washington State Ferries beginning in 1998. They are unique in the system for being propelled by water jets rather than traditional propelle ...
, ferries propelled by water jets rather than traditional propellers *
MDV 1200-class fast ferry The MDV 1200 class fast ferry is a class of six vessels built by Fincantieri in Italy. Four of these vessels were for Sea Containers, with the other two vessels being for Ocean Bridge Investments. History The MDV1200 craft were built for Ocean ...
, a class of six vessels built by Fincantieri in Italy


Businesses

* Fast Ferries (Greece), a Greek ferry operator * Supercat Fast Ferry Corporation, a Philippines high-speed catamaran operator *
Kitsap Fast Ferries Kitsap Fast Ferries is a passenger ferry service operating between Seattle and Kitsap County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is funded and operated by Kitsap Transit and began service in July 2017, with a single boat traveling between Seattl ...
, an American passenger ferry service * Ocean Fast Ferries, a Philippines high-speed craft operator *
Sydney Fast Ferries Sydney Fast Ferries operated high-speed ferry services on Port Jackson between Circular Quay and Manly from April 2010 until March 2015. History Since January 1965, the Port Jackson & Manly Steamship Company and its successors had operated hi ...
, an Australian high-speed ferry operator


Other uses

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Fast Ferry Scandal The fast ferry scandal was a political affair in the late 1990s relating to the construction of three fast ferries by the Canadian provincial crown corporation BC Ferries under direction of the Executive Council of British Columbia, headed at t ...
, a political affair in the late 1990s in British Columbia, Canada **
PacifiCat-class ferry The PacifiCat class of fast ferries was operated from June 1999 to March 2000 by BC Ferries in British Columbia, Canada. Three PacifiCat catamarans - ''Explorer'', ''Discovery'', and ''Voyager'' - were built between 1996 and 2000 as part of a maj ...
, defunct fast ferries


See also

* FastCat (disambiguation) * Auto Express 86-class ferry, a class of high-speed catamarans by Austal Ships of Australia * SpeedFerries, a British ferry operator 2004–2008 {{Disambiguation