Hovercraft
In the 1960s, British Rail started hovercraft services from Dover to Calais and Boulogne, and also across the Solent to the Isle of Wight. Rather than use the name Sealink, the services were marketed as "Seaspeed" and 'Solent Seaspeed'. Seaspeed merged with rival Hoverlloyd in 1981 to create Hoverspeed.
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