Karen Ireland on Shipbuilding

It was a very exciting thing, but my goodness it was noisy.

I used to have a little flat when I first came back to the Island to start teaching.  I had a little flat that was behind a shop almost next to the Pontoon in Cowes and I used to watch everything coming and going, and of course the Hovercraft, we’d see them coming out from British Hovercraft Corporation for their testing so you could see all the new ones …

Chris: That is now the Union Jack Hanger?

Yes, and the SR-N4 which was the cross-Channel one, I used to watch that coming out for its testing and the ‘6’, I was quite in love with that.

I used to love watching it coming up onto the Pad. It just looked like some very large garden slug or something and then it settled down.