Type: High speed hydrofoil Supramar PT20
IMO: ?
Flag: Australian
Homeport: Sydney
Owner: Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company
LOA: 18.60 m
Built: 1964, by Hitachi, Kanagawa Shipyard, Japan under license from Rodriquez Shipyard
Hull: aluminium hull and hardened steel for the foils
Screws 1
Speed: 35 knots
Passengers: 72
Crew: 3 (captain, engineer and deckhand)

MANLY (1964-1979)
ENTERPRISE (1979-1980) moved to Great Keppel Island
1980: laid up in Neutral Bay
1991: converted to a floating restaurant ?
1995: sold for rebuild ?

This was the first hydofoil in Sydney for the service Circular Quay and Manly, the only PT20 type and the only one built in Japan under license.
Picture taken 01.04.1968 (scanned slide)


Over the years several hydrofoils were operating in Sydney

MANLY (1) (1964-1979) IMO: ? PT20, 1 screw, 32 tons, 35 knots, 72 passengers,

FAIRLIGHT (1966-1984, scrapped 1988) IMO:6621583 PT50,

DEE WHY (1970-1985, scrapped 1988) IMO: 7010872, PT50, GRT: 129 tons

CURL CURL (1972-1993) IMO: 7232975, RHS140, 1994: SPARGI (Italy),GRT: 129 tons, LOA: 28.9 m, BOA: 10.7 m

PALM BEACH (1975-1988, scrapped) ex-PATANE (1969-1975) (Hong Kong) IMO: 7006015 PT50

LONG REEF (1980-1989) IMO: 6921335 ex-FRECCIA DI MERGELLINA(1) Italy, (1969-1978)

MANLY (2) (1984-1992) IMO: 8222290, RHS160F, 1992: shipped Italy SINAI

SYDNEY (1985-1992) IMO: 8310982, RHS160F, 1992 shipped Italy FAST BLU, 2012 scrapped

In the early nineties they were all replaced by the JetCats.
Info Miramar, Equasis,

[too small, but only one on site in these colours - DA]