HSC Tallink AutoExpress 2

Tallink AutoExpress 2 at quay 8 in Port of Tallinn on June 21, 2007.
History
Name	1997–2001: Boomerang 2001–2018: Tallink AutoExpress 2
Owner	1997–2001: Sea Tropid, Cyprus 2001–2007: Tallink 2007–2009: HansaLink, Cyprus 2009–2018: Conferry
Operator	1997–2001: Polferries 2001–2007: Tallink 2007–2018: Conferry
Port of registry	1997–2001: Nassau, Bahamas 2001–2007: Tallinn, Estonia 2007–2008: Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2008–2009: Limassol, Cyprus 2009–2018: Pampatar, Venezuela
Builder	Austal, Henderson, Western Australia
Yard number	53
Launched	1 March 1997
Completed	12 October 1997
Out of service	2018
Identification	IMO number: 9150286 Call sign YYKT (from 2009) MMSI number: 775504000 (from 2009)
Fate	Sank and later scrapped
General characteristics
Tonnage	5,419 GT
Length	82.3 m (270 ft 0 in)
Beam	23.0 m (75 ft 6 in)
Draught	2.8 m (9 ft 2 in)
Installed power	4 x MTU 20V 1163 TB73 diesel engines
Propulsion	4 x Kamewa waterjets
Speed	38 knots (service speed)
Capacity	700 passengers 175 cars

The HSC Tallink AutoExpress 2 was a fast passenger ferry (catamaran) operated by the Venezuelan ferry company Conferry on the line between Puerto la Cruz and Punta de Piedras, Margarita Island. She sank in 2018 and later she was scrapped.

History

HSC Boomerang was built in 1997 by Austal in Australia to their "AutoExpress 82" design and owned by Sea Tropid Co. Ltd., Cyprus for operation by Polferries between Świnoujście, Poland and Malmö, Sweden. In 2001 the ship was bought by Tallink and renamed Tallink AutoExpress 2, for the Tallinn, Estonia, to Helsinki, Finland route. On 12 October 2007, the ship collided with HSC SuperSeaCat Three in Tallinn harbour, resulting a metre-long hole in the ship's side. There were no serious injuries incurred.

On 3 November 2007, Tallink AutoExpress 2 arrived at Curaçao Drydocks prior to service with Conferry, a ferry operator in Venezuela, under a two-year charter on their domestic Punta de Piedras, Isla Margarita–Puerto La Cruz route. The ferry was bought by Conferry in 2009. In 2017 it was taken out of operation and laid up at Guanta due to lack of funds caused by economic crisis in Venezuela.

Tallink AutoExpress 2 partially sank at her berth at Guanta on 6 August 2018, due to a lack of proper maintenance. In December 2021, she was broken up at the DIANCA shipyard in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.