- Incat
Infobox Company
company_name = Incat Group of Companies
company_
company_type = Proprietary Limited Company
foundation = 1977
location = Hobart, Tasmania
industry =Shipbuilding
products = Wave Piercing Catamarans
homepage = [http://www.incat.com.au/ www.incat.com.au]
footnotes =Incat is a manufacturer of large HSC
catamaran s, based inHobart ,Tasmania ,Australia . The company builds large commercial and military vessels that use aluminium construction,wave-piercing and water-jet technology. Vessels have been constructed up to 112 metres in length and cruise at 40 knots (75 km/h). An Incat vessel is the holder of theBlue Riband Trophy for the fastest sea crossing of theAtlantic ocean .Several catamarans built by Incat have entered naval services, including HMAS "Jervis Bay", best known for its contribution to the
INTERFET inEast Timor , and HSV-1 "Joint Venture" and HSV-2 "Swift", both having been in service with the US military.In the late 1990s and early 2000s the company was in severe financial difficulties and heavily in debt to the Tasmanian Government. It found its way out of this financial crisis after it received renewed contracts to build
catamarans from overseas customers and the US military.Deliveries
ee also
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SeaCat External links
* [http://www.incat.com.au/ Official website]
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