Townsend Car Ferries (in association with their subsidiary company, P & A Campbell Ltd) were quick to examine the use of hovercraft on cross Channel operations. Their SR.N6 (024) was named Britannia and was delivered on 14th June, running from the North East corner of the Camber in Dover Harbour to Calais.

The orders from Hoverlloyd and Townsend epitomised the optimism of the time although an early casualty was Townsend Car Ferries whose service lasted less than three months before weather and technical problems forced cross-Channel operations to close on 27th July. Thereafter operations were limited to two summer seasons of joy rides from beaches along the South coast of England. Hoverlloyd, though, did complete its cross-Channel schedules during the summers of 1966 and 1967.

From the Hovercraft Museum website.