HSC Jaume II is a high speed catamaran built in 1996 by Incat in Tasmania, Australia.

The vessel was forced to turn back to Belfast and passengers were offered alternative travel arrangements.

The Rapide lay alongside the lay-up berth in Belfast before finally getting repaired by March 2003.

In June 2006 Rapide left the channel probably for the last time bound for a new career in the Mediterranean with the Spanish shipping company Baleària, renamed Jaume II.

In February 2016 four new main engines were fitted at the Astilleros del Guadalquivir shipyard in Seville, to reduce fuel consumption and NOx emissions and to increase speed.