MV Red Jet 3 berthed at East Cowes, 19 August 2018

MV ''Red Jet 3'' is a passenger catamaran ferry formerly operated by

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Cowes Cowes () is an English seaport town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. Cowes is located on the west bank of the estuary of the River Medina, facing the smaller town of East Cowes on the east bank. The two towns are linked by the Cowes Floa ...

on the

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along with sister ships ''

Red Jet 4 MV ''Red Jet 4'' is a passenger catamaran ferry operated by Red Funnel on their route from Southampton to Cowes on the Isle of Wight, along with sister ships ''Red Jet 6 and Red Jet 7.'' She was built by North West Bay Ships in Hobart, Tasmani ...

'', ''

Red Jet 5 MV ''Schiopparello Jet'' is a passenger catamaran ferry, formerly known as ''Bo Hengy'' and ''Red Jet 5''. She operates on routes from Piombino to the Tuscan archipelago on behalf of ferry operator Toremar (''Toscana Regionale Marittima''). Sh ...

'' and ''

Red Jet 6 MV ''Red Jet 6'' is a high-speed Catamaran ferry constructed for Red Funnel in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight as the sixth member of the company's expansive ''Red Jet'' line of catamarans. Red Funnel announced in May 2015 that they had placed ...

''. She was built by FB Marine on the

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at a cost of £2.73 million and entered service in 1998. The ship reached a speed of 37.4 Knots during a publicity cruise on 14 July 1998 before entering into regular service on 27 July 1998. This entry into service meant that the older ''Shearwater 5'' and ''Shearwater 6''

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s were no longer needed to provide backup for the Red Funnel high speed service and they were withdrawn. The high speed fleet then consisted of '' Red Jet 1'', '' Red Jet 2'' and ''Red Jet 3''. In March 2019, Red Jet 3 was sold to Adriatic Fast Ferries, a ferry company operating in

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. ''Red Jet 3'' entered service with Adriatic later in the year, where it now operates under the name ''Adriatic Express''.

References

''Red Jet 3'' specification

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Red Jet 3 Ferries of England Ferry transport on the Isle of Wight 1999 ships Individual catamarans Ships of Red Funnel

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