Hovercraft Museum
50°48′27″N 1°12′35″W / 50.80759°N 1.20974°W
 Mark 3 SR.N4 Hovercraft, The Princess Margaret | |
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| Established | 1988 |
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| Location | Building 40, Daedalus Site, Argus Gate, Chalk Lane, Lee-on-Solent, Hants PO13 9JY United Kingdom |
| Type | Maritime museum |
| Collection size | 60 full size craft Hovercraft archive and library |
| Website | Hovercraft Museum |
The Hovercraft Museum, located in Lee-on-the-Solent in Hampshire, England, is dedicated to hovercraft.
The museum has a large collection of various designs of hovercraft - numbering over sixty at the last count. Situated at HMS Daedalus by the large slipway from where many hovercraft have been tested, the museum collection includes SR.N5 and SR.N6 hovercraft, one of which is fully operational. The collection currently contains the last two remaining SR.N4 craft, the world's largest civil hovercraft which have been laid up here since their retirement from cross-Channel services on 1 October 2000. The future of these vessels is uncertain, as they are privately owned and are possibly up for sale.
The museum houses the world's largest library of documents, publications, film, video, photographs and drawings on hovercraft, all of which is available for research by prior arrangement. Indeed many former hovercraft manufacturers have deposited their complete archives with the museum for safekeeping, thus swelling this important repository of information.
The museum also contains a large collection of original manufacturer's hovercraft models including the world's first working hovercraft model built by Christopher Cockerell.
Notes and references
External links
- Hovercraft Museum's official website
- Pictures of Hovershow, 2004
- Pictures of Hovershow. 2005
- Pictures of Hovershow. 2006
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