The cross-Channel hovercraft service was withdrawn on 1 October 2000 Up to 200 cross-Channel hovercraft crew are to mark the 10th anniversary of the service being withdrawn. The ex-employees, ...

It was the fastest way to get passengers across the English Channel from Kent to France for decades. Hovercrafts operated at 60mph (96kmph) from Dover and Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate, from 1968, ...

On October 1, 2000, the skirts of Princess Anne and Princess Margaret deflated for the final time. These two colossal SR.N4 hovercraft had shuttled vacationers and booze cruisers between the UK and ...

An area's biggest town centre development, set to add a cinema and restaurants, will have £53.25m injected into it by an outside firm. The Princess Anne hovercraft looks set to be saved from being ...

Sorry, this video asset has been removed. The hovercraft on Dover beach for the filming of Coast. Presenter Dr Alice Roberts is in the dark red coat. The glitz and ...

Once they were the future of sea travel. Able to carry hundreds of passengers and dozens of cars across the Channel in less than half an hour in good conditions, hovercraft would speed past jealous ...

"Positive" talks have been held about saving one of two remaining cross-Channel hovercraft under threat of being scrapped, a museum has said. The Hovercraft Museum is in talks with the government's ...