AN INCAT-built wave-piercing catamaran has returned to Hobart after active duty with the US military.
HSV 2 Swift was first chartered to the US Navy-Military Sealift in 2003 for five years, with a five-year extension granted in October 2008 at a cost of about $US93 million.
The 98m vessel, which is owned by US firm Bollinger/Incat, has travelled to many global troublespots over the past 10 years including Lebanon, the Persian Gulf and East Africa.
The Swift has also travelled to the Gulf of Mexico.
The vessel, one of three Incat-built ships contracted by the US military -- passed under the Tasman Bridge at 9.30am today and docked at the Incat shipyard in Prince of Wales Bay at 10am.
The Swift will be refitted in Hobart for sale or charter.