HSC Condor Rapide

Champion Jet 3 is a high-speed catamaran ferry owned and operated by Seajets. Launched in 1997, she was initially chartered out as a civilian ferry, then became the first large catamaran to enter military service when she was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Jervis Bay from 1999 to 2001. In 2002, she returned to civilian use, chartered to the Italian company TRIS. From 2004, she was chartered by SpeedFerries for its Dover to Boulogne-sur-Mer service. Renamed SpeedOne and later purchased outright by the company, she operated on this route until French authorities impounded her in late 2008, as the SpeedFerries had failed to pay taxes. SpeedFerries was placed into administration shortly after, and the ferry was laid up until 2010, when she was purchased by Condor Ferries for operations between the Channel Islands and St Malo as Condor Rapide. She was then sold in 2021 to Spanish operator Trasmapi as Incat 045. Having failed to enter service with Trasmapi, she was sold to Seajets in 2023, and currently operates in the Aegean Sea as Champion Jet 3.