Comments by "Dave Sisson" (@Dave_Sisson) on "Kommuna - Guide 319" video.

In the late 1990s during the Timor Emergency, the Australian navy found themselves short of fast transport ships. So they looked around and found a Hobart shipyard called INCAT had a spare catamaran passenger and truck ferry that operated at up to 50 knots. They hired it, dubbed it HMAS Jervis Bay and the big catamaran was far more successful than purpose built naval transports on the run to Timor. After a couple of years the lease expired and INCAT sold the ferry to a company in Europe where I think it is still running.
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@petesheppard1709 I don't think the US cats were too successful, I know their trimarans were definitely not. But that Australian commercial catamaran ferry actually won battle honors.
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