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The Outskirts

Minus her giant propellors, HoverLLoyd's huge

'Mountbatten Class' SR.N4 GH-2004 'Swift' languishing at the Hovercraft Museum, Lee-on-Solent before being scrapped in 2004.

 

Famous for plying across the English Channel to mainland Europe packed with cars and holiday makers, the advent of 'The Chunnel' rendered them unviable.

 

See:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR.N4#Survivors

 

Scanned Kodachrome 35mm Transparency

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Uploaded on March 24, 2016
Taken on September 12, 1995