GRIFFON 2000 TD HOVERCRAFT
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:06 pm
For the British-Nicaragua Expedition in 1995 on the San Juan River, Nicaragua issued a stamp which depicts the hovercraft of the type Griffon 2000 TD.
The hovercraft type 2000 TD is made by Griffon Hoverwork , Southampton.
Displacement 3.5 tons, dim. 11.7 x 5.9 m.
Powered by one Deutz diesel engine 350 hp., speed 35 knots by sea state 3.
Crew 3.
Accommodation for 20 passengers.
The 2000 series was introduced in the early 1990s. The 200 TD series is slightly smaller than the older SR.N 6 hovercraft popular with commercial and military services during the 1970s, and largely replaced the older SR.N 6 series in most of these roles, because it is constructed almost entirely out of aluminium the 2000 TDX is less than half the weight of the older SR.N 6 hovercraft.
When the at that time President of Nicaragua Dona Violetta de Chomorro, and Great Britain’s Ambassador to Nicaragua asked the Peace of Hope Trust to find a way of linking the isolated Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua with the more affluent Pacific Coast in 1995 the director Mike Cole of the Peace of Hope Trust lead a expedition by two hovercrafts the Griffon 2000 TD shown on the stamp and RR501.
The two hovercrafts successfully crossed Nicaragua and provided the desperately needed link between the separated regions.
The expedition showed how hovercraft could be used to establish a communication link between the isolated villages of Nicaragua and its larger cities. It revealed the true isolation of hundreds of thousands of people living on the Atlantic coast and from that onwards the Peace and Hope Trust focussed its mission on serving them in better ways.
Since 1995 hovercraft have developed further, and in recent years technologies have been established to enable medical operation theatres to become mobile. A combination of these advances allows the future possibility of a hovercraft based mobile clinic or even operating theatre.
In August 2007, in response to these improvements in technology, a small team from the Peace and Hope Trust spent three weeks on the Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast assessing the potential viability of using hovercraft to meet the needs of the isolated villages in these areas. From this initial work the Hovercraft Project has developed.
Nicaragua 1995 4cor sg?, scott2098.
Source: http://www.hoveraid.co.uk/Hovercareprojecthistory.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon_2000TD_hovercraft
The hovercraft type 2000 TD is made by Griffon Hoverwork , Southampton.
Displacement 3.5 tons, dim. 11.7 x 5.9 m.
Powered by one Deutz diesel engine 350 hp., speed 35 knots by sea state 3.
Crew 3.
Accommodation for 20 passengers.
The 2000 series was introduced in the early 1990s. The 200 TD series is slightly smaller than the older SR.N 6 hovercraft popular with commercial and military services during the 1970s, and largely replaced the older SR.N 6 series in most of these roles, because it is constructed almost entirely out of aluminium the 2000 TDX is less than half the weight of the older SR.N 6 hovercraft.
When the at that time President of Nicaragua Dona Violetta de Chomorro, and Great Britain’s Ambassador to Nicaragua asked the Peace of Hope Trust to find a way of linking the isolated Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua with the more affluent Pacific Coast in 1995 the director Mike Cole of the Peace of Hope Trust lead a expedition by two hovercrafts the Griffon 2000 TD shown on the stamp and RR501.
The two hovercrafts successfully crossed Nicaragua and provided the desperately needed link between the separated regions.
The expedition showed how hovercraft could be used to establish a communication link between the isolated villages of Nicaragua and its larger cities. It revealed the true isolation of hundreds of thousands of people living on the Atlantic coast and from that onwards the Peace and Hope Trust focussed its mission on serving them in better ways.
Since 1995 hovercraft have developed further, and in recent years technologies have been established to enable medical operation theatres to become mobile. A combination of these advances allows the future possibility of a hovercraft based mobile clinic or even operating theatre.
In August 2007, in response to these improvements in technology, a small team from the Peace and Hope Trust spent three weeks on the Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast assessing the potential viability of using hovercraft to meet the needs of the isolated villages in these areas. From this initial work the Hovercraft Project has developed.
Nicaragua 1995 4cor sg?, scott2098.
Source: http://www.hoveraid.co.uk/Hovercareprojecthistory.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffon_2000TD_hovercraft