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Unknown P&O Boeing Jetfoil; Saw her once in Rotterdam in 1980, if I am not mistaken. No info about name and number.
Edit: Date of photo around 1980, I have found another shot of her with the Hook-Harwich ferry Prinses Beatrix at the quay behind her. Still no name readible.
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Anyway, I found a third shot, showing her in the distance coming from Rotterdam, at speed so out of the water. Apparently she slowed down to pick up/or deliver a pilot and then sailed on. This may suggest that she had been taken on a ship loaded in Seattle, discharged in Rotterdam and prepared there for her service. Dates of the photos are definitely after the Flying Princess period, because I had no camera in in 1977-78.
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In 1980 P&O tried again with a pair of leased craft, running from Pool of London to Ostend, but that service only ran until the end of 1982, with JETFOIL ONE (IMO 7923249) and JETFOIL TWO (IMO 7923251). I am sure that the photo is one of these two, but I do not think that it will be possible to differentiate them in this photo.
Interesting that the photo should be at Hook of Holland. That suggests that it was taken at the beginning of end of their service when being shipped from Seattle or to Hong Kong respectively (there is a photo in the P&O Fleet History of JETFERRY TWO being lifted by an unidentified floating sheerlegs, quite possibly in Rotterdam.
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Regards
Bob
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looks like a Jetfoil 929
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_929
Rgds. Juergen
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