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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Operator |
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| Port of registry | Århus,  Denmark [1] |
| Route | Ystad-Rønne[1] |
| Builder | Incat, Tasmania, Australia |
| Yard number | 048 |
| Laid down | 28 July 1997[2] |
| Launched | 28 March 1998[2] |
| Identification | IMO number: 9176058 [1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 91 m (299 ft) [1] |
| Beam | 26 m (85 ft) [1] |
| Draught | 3.7 m (12 ft) [1] |
| Propulsion | 4 x Ruston 20RK270[1] |
| Speed | 48.1 knots (89.1 km/h; 55.4 mph) [1] |
HSC Max Mols is a high speed catamaran launched on 1 December 1997 at the Incat shipyard in Tasmania.[3] She has spent the majority of her career serving the Aarhus-Odden route with Mols Linien. She has frequently been chartered to other operators in the Baltic Sea and English Channel.
Initially chartered to Cat-Link as Cat-Link IV she entered service between Århus and Kalundborg in May 1998.[3] The following January her charter passed to Mols Linien and she was thus renamed Max Mols, entering service on her standing Århus-Odden route in April 1999.[3] She has since had three major charters each for the summer seasons of 2000, 2002 and 2004 before returning to Denmark. In 2000 she operated between North Sydney and Channel-Port aux Basques for Marine Atlantic, in 2002 she was chartered to Riga Sea Line for a route between Riga and Nynäshamn and her final charter was to P&O Ferries as the Max Mols (Caen Express) operating a high speed service between Portsmouth and Caen, returning to Mols Linien at the end of October.[3] Since 2004, she has continued operating the Århus-Odden route as before.[3]
