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Hovercraft
Hovercraft meaning
A vehicle supported on a cushion of air, able to traverse many different types of terrain and travel over water, used for transport.
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The lifeboat and hovercraft were launched, although the hovercraft struggled to cope with the severe winds.
A post on the RNLI Hoylake Lifeboat Station Facebook page said: "Hoylakes hovercraft, 'Hurley Spirit', was tasked to launch by the UK Coastguard at 6.15pm yesterday to reports of a vehicle stuck in the sand at Leasowe Bay as the tide was fast approaching.
During her career, Val also treated some of those injured when a hovercraft carrying 370 people across the English Channel crashed into a seawall in Dover in 1985.
It was a river ride along the mangrove forest where we were treated to 25 minutes of hovercraft ride along a circuitous route of miles and miles of mangrove.
Morecambe RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) launched its hovercraft to help with the operation.
The "Sea Baby" drone which struck the hovercraft is a newly developed Ukrainian-made marine drone capable of functioning in a storm.
The skirt material on hovercraft wears out over time, losing its elasticity and its ‘bounce’ so to keep the craft operating to its optimum, the rubber needs to replaced.
The World’s Only Hovercraft Museum!, Lee-on-the-Solent.
HM Coastguard requested the launch of both RNLI vessels, the inshore rescue lifeboat and inshore rescue hovercraft at 2.15pm on Sunday (March 3).
Morecambe RNLI hovercraft and lifeboat were called out to rescue a person stuck on a sandbank in Morecambe Bay.
Perhaps more interesting is his hovercraft version of the DeLorean, however, which is arguably the most futuristic the real-world version of this car has ever been.
The hovercraft crew advised them of the safest route back to the shore and escorted them to the steps in the sea wall near Dovepoint Slipway, where they were met by HM Coastguard officers.
Inspired by and named after the character Morpheus from Neil Gaiman's graphic novels, Fishburne's character is the captain of the Nebuchadnezzar, a hovercraft representing the last human city, Zion.
Southend RNLI hovercraft rescues two stranded dolphins along with Gravesend Lifeboat crew safety cover.
A Coast Guard dive team has been deployed by hovercraft to search the area after reports of an oil slick, but could not say whether the two incidents are connected.
A few decades after James Bond rode on Princess Anne, hovercraft were used far more extensively in Die Another Day.
The new hovercraft is going to be furnished with folding missile launchers, sonar systems and torpedoes, the commander added.
Now, when Haze sits, a “hovercraft” of skin skirts her seat.
Sturgeon and the state claim the Park Service hovercraft ban doesn’t apply to the Nation River, even when it flows through the federal preserve, because the land under navigable waters belongs to the state.
You should see his hovercraft!