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History
Name	Max (2018-present) Max Mols (2004-2018) Max Mols (Caen Express) (2004) Max Mols (1999-2004) Cat-Link IV (1998-1999)
Owner	Seajets (2024-) Mols-Linien (1998-2024) Cat-Link (1998-1999)
Operator	Seajets (2024-) Mols-Linien (2004-2023) P&O Ferries (2004) Mols-Linien (2002-2004) Riga Sea Line (2002) Mols-Linien (2001-2002) Scandlines (2001) Mols-Linien (2000-2001) Marine Atlantic (2000) Mols-Linien (1999-2000) Cat-Link (1998-1999)
Port of registry	Århus,  Denmark
Route	Ystad-Rønne
Builder	Incat, Tasmania, Australia
Yard number	048
Laid down	28 July 1997
Launched	28 March 1998
In service	1998
Identification	IMO number: 9176058
Status	Out Of Service
General characteristics
Class and type	Incat Catamaran
Tonnage	5,617 GT 2,311 NT 500 DWT
Length	91 m (299 ft)
Beam	26 m (85 ft)
Draught	3.7 m (12 ft)
Decks	2
Propulsion	4 x Ruston 20RK270
Speed	48.1 knots (89.1 km/h; 55.4 mph)

HSC Max Mols is a high speed catamaran launched on 1 December 1997 at the Incat shipyard in Tasmania. 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. Recently been purchased by Seajets of Greece! It will be delivered to Greece later this year.

Initially chartered to Cat-Link as Cat-Link IV she entered service between Århus and Kalundborg in May 1998. 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. 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. Since 2004, she has continued operating the Århus-Odden route as before.

Sister ships

Max Mols is one of four 91 metre wave piercing catamarans built by Incat.

• Incat 046
• Express
• Fjord Cat

References

1. ^ "HSC Max Mols". Ferry-site.dk. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
2. ^ "MAX MOLS (20063)". Vessel Register for DNV. DNV. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
3. ^ "Max Mols". SimplonPC.co.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
4. "91 Metre Wave Piercing Catamaran". Incat. Archived from the original on 6 March 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2010.

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