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Seacat was a British short-range surface-to-air missile system intended to replace the ubiquitous Bofors 40 mm gun aboard warships of all sizes. It was the world's first operational shipboard point-defence missile system, and was designed so that the Bofors guns could be replaced with minimum modification to the recipient vessel and (originally) using existing fire-control systems.
SeaCat Scotland in Dover in 2004. SeaCat Scotland was the sole ferry the company used between 1992-2002. She was chartered in 1995 and renamed Q-Ship Express for a month, reverting to SeaCat Scotland at the conclusion of her charter in December 1995. On 31 October 2002 SeaCat Scotland left Troon for the final time and was laid-up at Belfast and ...
HSC Cat was launched as SeaCat Tasmania in October 1990. The vessel's first spell in service was on charter to Tasmanian Ferry Services and was deployed on the route across Bass Strait between Port Welshpool and George Town until 1992 when the vessel moved to England operating across the English Channel between Dover and Calais and also Folkestone and Boulogne-sur-Mer for Hoverspeed. [3]
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Hoverspeed was a ferry company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005. It was formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd.Its last owners were Sea Containers; the company ran a small fleet of two high-speed SeaCat catamaran ferries in its final year.
The Naxos Jet was built in 1992 as Seacat Scotland for Sea Containers. She was built to inaugurate a new fast ferry service between Stranraer and Belfast . Before commencing service on the North Channel she briefly operated on the Dover to Calais route for Hoverspeed .
The Seacat is a flat sea hare that grows to about 10 cm long. [6] The maximum recorded length is 108 mm. [7] It is commonly spotty green or brown, but it can also be reddish. [6] The animal's back half is typically wider and rounded, it narrows towards the head. [6] Warty Seacats are soft-bodied gastropods, who have lost a protective shell over ...
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