SRN2 Hovercraft

In the Summer of 1962, Hovertransport (a joint Westland/Southdown Motor Services venture) used a Westland's SRN2 to run a passenger carrying service across the Solent between Eastney and Ryde coming in onto Appley Beach.

• 65 ft long
• 30 ft beam
• 38 or 53 passengers as fitted at different times
  (it was designed to take 70 passengers)
• 73 kts
• 4 x 815 shp Bristol Siddeley Nimbus engines
  - 2 for lift, 2 for propulsion

see this page for other Saunders-Roe/BHC hovercraft.

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	SRN2 Hovercraft travelling at speed (Postcard)
	SRN2 Hovercraft in operation by Southdown Coaches (Postcard)
	SRN2 on the beach at Pemarth during the cross Bristol Channel Service 1963
	Shown here on the Weston-super-Mare beach with a shorter skirt than fitted later (below).
	Another pic of the SRN2 at Weston-super-Mare - contributed by John Bennett
	SR-N2 on sea trials at Dartmouth - Westland's picture contributed by Nick Messinger
	SRN2 The SR-N2 shown here (above and left) offering a cross Solent ferry service in 1964 operated by Hovertransport.
	SRN2 coming ashore, 1964 (postcard)
	SRN2 at Calshot beach (a postcard from a picture by Derek Wilson)