Isle of Wight
Seaspeed also operated services across the Solent using smaller, passenger-only SR-N6 hovercraft; the service between Cowes and Southampton commenced in 1966, later being joined by Portsmouth-Ryde and Portsmouth-Cowes services. The Solent routes were transferred to Hovertravel in 1976. Hovertravel's services between Ryde and Portsmouth still continue.
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