Hovercraft, Hydrofoils & Catamarans - Sixty Years of Fast Ferries Hardback 28cm x 22cm

Hardback 28cm x 22cm

and shipbuilding

the sturdy little cargo ships were far from characterless and were always much admired by those who sailed them

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

See our spectacular ancient landscapes

Hovercraft, Hydrofoils & Catamarans - Sixty Years of Fast Ferries Hardback 28cm x 22cmNew 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