Hovercraft Collection

Westland SRN4 hovercraft, GH-2007, The Princess Anne, of Seaspeed

Westland SRN3 hovercraft

British Hovercraft Corporation BH7 Mk2, 12 April 1972, on its return to HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-Solent, after nine weeks of trials in the Baltic Sea. Date: 1972

The Hovertravel Ryde to Portsmouth hovercraft arrives on the mainlaind at Southsea after crossing the Solent from the Isle of Wight

Lt Cdr Peter Melville Lamb, DSC*, AFC - Chief Test Pilot
Lt Cdr Peter Melville Lamb, DSC*, AFC (1923-2000), Chief Test Pilot, Saunders-Roe, with the SRN1 hovercraft in 1959. Date: 1959

Vickers VA. 1 hovercraft G-15-252
Vickers VA.1 hovercraft G-15-252, under way during trials off Southampton, 27 October 1961. Date: 1961

Vickers VA. 3 hovercraft G-15-243
Vickers VA.3 hovercraft G-15-243, under way during trials on the Solent, 17 May 1962. Date: 1962

British Hovercraft Corporation SRN. 5 No. 006
British Hovercraft Corporation SRN.5 No.006, on a demonstration flight during Hovershow 66, at Browndown near Gosport, on 6 June 1966. Date: 1966

Hoverquipment HQ-007 Scorpion hovercraft, at Lydd Airport, behind the British Air Ferries terminal. Date: 1969

Vickers VA. 1 hovercraft
Vickers VA.1 hovercraft, (G-15-252) at Royal Naval Air Station Lee on the Solent, for trials. Date: circa 1961

Futuristic hydroplane
A futuristic hydroplane, skimming along the surface of the sea. Date: 1899

Saunders-Roe SR. N4 Princess Anne Hovercraft
The Saunders-Roe SR.N4 (Saunders-Roe Nautical 4) Princess Anne, otherwise known as the Mountbatten-class, the biggest hovercraft to have been completed upon its introduction

Westland SRN4 hovercraft of Seaspeed

British Hovercraft Corporation BH7 Mk2, XW255

The Incredible Shape of Things to Come: The Hovercraft
Incredible Shape of Things to Come: The Hovercraft, Which, Supported on a " Cushion" of Air, is Designed to Carry 1000 Passengers over Land or Sea

Giant hovercraft under construction, Isle of Wight
Giant SRN4 hovercraft under construction, Isle of Wight, September 1967. The 100-ton vessel was designed to cross the English Channel in 20 minutes carrying 500 people, or 246 people and 30 cars

British Hovercraft Corporation SRN6 Mk6, GH-9001

Co-designers A P Freeman and T Rayner (in cockpit)
Co-designers A.P. Freeman and T. Rayner (in cockpit) discuss the performance of the Sealand SH1 hovercraft. c.1970

Sealand SH1 hovercraft on trial at Marine Lake, West Kirby, Cheshire, c.1970

David Taylor Model Basin 7ft dynamic model hovercraft. 1959

National Physical laboratory Hovercraft Unit Experimental craft HD2, HD2-001, built to investigate methods of improving lateral control and manoeuvrability

Vickers VA-2 hovercraft, VA2-001, was demonstrated to Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands at the BP Harbour Installation at Usselinckxhaven, Amsterdam

Vickers VA-1 research hovercraft, G-15-252, at Vickers-Armstrongs South Marston Works, Swindon

The frst Westland SRN4 hovercraft, GH-2006, The Princess Margaret, of Seaspeed

Westland SRN2, SR-N2-001, hovercraft

Westland SRN2 hovercraft, G-12-5

Saunders-Roe SR-N1 hovercraft, G-12-4

Saunders-Roe SR-N1 hovercraft G-12-4
Saunders-Roe SR-N1 hovercraft, G-12-4

Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands at the controls of a five-seat Vickers VA-2 hovercraft in Amsterdam harbour. circa 1962. Date: 1962

Seaspeed Hovercraft
The Seaspeed Hovercraft which ferries passengers from the Isle of Wight to mainland England. Date: 1960s

Hovercraft Passengers
Passengers waiting on an unspecified British beach for others to disembark from a hovercraft so that they can get on. Date: 1960s

Eastbourne Hovercraft
Spectators watch eagerly as a hovercraft arrives at Eastbourne pier, England. Date: 1960s

Iow Hovercraft
Passengers disembarking from a SRN6 hovercraft at Ryde, Isle of Wight, England

HYDROPLANE OF L AN 2000
A hydroplane of the year 2000 - not so very different from the hovercraft

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