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Alakai docking in Honolulu Harbor. The vessel used by Hawaii Superferry was an aluminum-hulled catamaran with drive-on / drive-off vehicle capability or fast ferry service. It was designed and built in the United States, in Mobile, AL by Austal USA, a division of the world's largest fast-ferry builder, Australia-based shipbuilder Austal.
The vessel is a 349-foot (106 m) long high-speed roll-on/roll-off (Ro/Ro) passenger and vehicle ferry. She used to operate a daily service operated by Hawaii Superferry at a speed of 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) between the islands of Oahu and Maui. HST-2 has a capacity of 866 passengers and up to 282 subcompact cars. Alternately, its vehicle ...
Dives to Carthaginian II with a history of the boat; Flyer of the dive boat company Atlantis Submarine Tour Maui with a location sketch to the wreck. "Details zum Schiff: Carthaginian II". Schiffshistorisches Archiv Flensburg; Kubota, Gary (October 20, 2002). "Group debates floating museum's fate". Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Carthaginian was a three-masted barque outfitted as a whaler that served both as a movie prop and a museum ship in Hawaii.Laid down and launched in Denmark in 1921 as the three-masted schooner Wandia, she was converted in 1964–1965 into a typical square-rigged 19th-century whaler for the filming of the 1966 movie Hawaii.
Apr. 12—Maui's west-side commercial boating operators are getting some relief from the business impacts of the Maui wildfires with the state's decision to lift temporary restrictions at Mala ...
The South Pacific air ferry route was initially established in the 1920s to ferry United States Army Air Service aircraft to the Philippines. As the Japanese threat in the Far East increased in 1940, General Douglas MacArthur planned that in the event of war, the United States Army Air Corps would play a major role in defending the Philippines.
Snack on local poke bowls and shave ice and get in some cultural and historical enrichment with a visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, Dole Plantation and Honolulu Museum of Art. Explore Honolulu 2.
Jan. 23—The Coast Guard said it is responding to the Maui-Lanai ferry, which ran aground Monday morning near the entrance to Maalaea Harbor. At 5:05 a.m., the Coast Guard received word that the ...