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PSP ships £7m hovercraft to Quebec
Posted: 29 April 2009
Pictured here is Mamilossa, a £7m hovercraft, at the beginning and end of her 10 day journey. She was carefully and skilfully loaded onto a PSP vessel and shipped from this country to Canada.
Mamilossa was built and tested by Hoverwork Limited, a company based in St Helens, Isle of Wight. Hoverwork’s associated company, Hovertravel operates a ferry service between Ryde and Portsmouth.
The name “Mamilossa” is a Native Abenakis American Indian word which means, appropriately, “he who goes from water to land”. She is planned to be a general purpose craft for the Canadian Coastguard to use on the Canadian east coast waterways. She will operate out of the hovercraft base at Trois Rivieres, in the St Lawrence Estuary, Quebec.
The Coastguard will use Mamilossa for a number of duties; on search and rescue missions, for environmental response, in a support role for law enforcement agencies and for national security missions. Alongside these duties, the 75 tonne vessel will be used to position and recover navigation markers and in the spring, she will be used as an ice-breaker. Mamilossa will be able to support a crew of six on extended missions.
