Hovercraft, Hydrofoils & Catamarans - Sixty Years of Fast Ferries building a knowledge of the

building a knowledge of the Island Ports and Irish Sea that is second to none

The services operated in the Mediterranean

Roll on – roll off traffic and containerisation effectively killed them off and their role within the general scheme of cross-Channel services is now consigned to history

Its introduction was met by fierce hostility from the traditional wherrymen who did everything in their power to prevent their livelihoods from being threatened by the new mode of transport

Where else in modern times would you find a UFO crash on a mountain-top

Hovercraft, Hydrofoils & Catamarans - Sixty Years of Fast Ferries building a knowledge of theNew and expanded edition of this book popular book first published in 2022. In July 1962, a small queue of passengers lined up on the beach at Rhyl in North Wales and paid 1 for a bumpy hovercraft ride along the coast to Wallasey. This book tells the story of the fast ferry revolution that followed, changing the face of sea travel around Britains coasts. In less than a decade, the huge SRN4 hovercraft were running across the Channel and Italian built