Seaspeed Hovercraft ‘The Princess Margaret’ 1973
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The futuristic era of cross-channel travel is captured in this authentic 1970s colour photograph from 1973. The archival image features the Seaspeed hovercraft ‘The Princess Margaret’, a Mountbatten-class SR.N4, positioned on the wet concrete apron of a hoverport. The craft’s distinctive front loading ramp is lowered, revealing the dark interior of the car deck, while a yellow crane and a silver van on a loading platform are visible to the left. In the foreground, a group of passengers in typical early 1970s attire—including long wool coats and flared trousers—are guided across the tarmac by a Seaspeed stewardess wearing a signature navy uniform and red pillbox hat. The hovercraft displays the classic Seaspeed livery with the British Rail double-arrow logo on its large propeller pylons. This factual record preserves the height of hovercraft operations in the 1970s, documenting the unique logistical process of boarding one of the world’s largest civil hovercraft before its eventual 1981 jumbo-extension.
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