In 1998 on her delivery voyage she took the Blue Riband for an eastbound crossing of the North Atlantic by a passenger ship from Hoverspeed Great Britain with an average speed of 38.877. Originally named Catalonia she became Portsmouth Express and later HSC Express and spent most of her life crossing the Irish Sea. She differs from her three sisters by having a lounge overlooking the stern one deck above the others and a different stern ramp (see Max Mols for comparison. Since 2016 she has been laid up in Sweden but is expected to return to traffic in the Baltic.