Model of Stena high speed catamaran passenger and car ferry
Stena Explorer at Dún Laoghaire
Class overview
Name
HSS 1500
Builders
Finnyards, Finland
Operators
Stena Line
Albamar Shipping Company
Built
June 1994 - April 1997
In service
April 1996 - September 2014
Planned
4
Building
1996
Completed
3
Cancelled
1
Laid up
1
Retired
3
Scrapped
2
General characteristics
Type
High-speed catamaran
Tonnage
19,638 GT
Displacement
90.50
Length
126.6 m (415 ft 4 in)
Beam
40.0 m (131 ft 3 in)
Draught
4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)
Depth
100m
Decks
7
Deck clearance
30 min
Ramps
3
Installed power
COGAG Turbines:
2 × GE LM2500
2 × GE LM1600
Propulsion
4x Kamewa Type S Waterjets
Speed
Unladen record 51 knots [citation needed]
Capacity
1,500 passengers
375 cars
800 lane metres
Notes
The Stena Explorer is mainly laid up, it only sails in Summer now.
HSS 1500 was the name of a model of Stena HSS craft developed and originally operated by Stena Line on European international ferry routes. The vessels were the largest high-speed craft in the world. Several design patents were registered to Stena Line in the development of the HSS.
Three vessels were ultimately completed in 1996 and 1997. The first of the class, Stena Explorer, entered service in April 1996, serving the Holyhead - Dún Laoghaire route from 1996 to 2014.[1][2] Two others had served Stranraer to Belfast and Harwich to Hook of Holland.[3] On the 200-kilometre Hoek–Harwich route, the Stena HSS had cut the crossing time in half by cruising at 41 knots.[3][4]
^"Stena Explorer". Sealink-Holyhead. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
^Ashmore, Jehan (June 2015). "Farewell to Stena's HSS". Ships Monthly. Retrieved 4 December 2022 – via archive.org.
^ ab"Fast Ferries", by Ian Manser, in The Global Change?, International Ports Congress 1999, page 43. Online at Google Books.
^"A Ferry for the Future", Bonaire Reporter, 2001-05-02. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
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