![]() HST-2 leaving Yarmouth Harbour
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Name | Alakai |
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Port of registry |
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Builder | Austal USA |
Cost | US$88M |
Yard number | 615 |
Way number | 1 |
Laid down | June 3, 2004 |
Launched | January 18, 2007 |
Christened | April 14, 2007 |
Maiden voyage | August, 2007 |
In service | 2007 |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ferry |
Tonnage | 8,127 GT |
Displacement | 1,646 tons |
Length | 349 ft (106 m) |
Beam | 78 ft (24 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Decks | 4 |
Deck clearance | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
Installed power | 4 x MTU-8000 diesel engines |
Propulsion | 4 x Rolls-Royce KaMeWa 125MkII waterjets |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph), max 43 knots (80 km/h; 49 mph) |
Capacity | 866 passengers, 282 cars |
Crew | 21 |
HST-2, formerly named USNS Puerto Rico and Alakai, is a vessel owned by the United States Navy Military Sealift Command. She was originally Hawaii Superferry's first high-speed ferry. The vessel was later chartered by Bay Ferries Limited to operate a ferry service between Maine and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
The design of the Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport is similar to the two high-speed ferries operated by Hawaii Superferry, both built by Austal USA.