I remember going on a trip on a steamer from Portsmouth to Southampton Docks, circa 1957, to view the ocean liners. The skipper however took us very close in to Calshott.
I believe there was also some hairbrained scheme to put a nuclear reactor in the flying prototype which would somehow drive the props, presumably by steam turbines, and give it unlimited range, anyone have any details of that, would have been interesting had it crashed near a populated area.
The name is Calshot! 😀 I think the nuclear idea was American, or if not, there was a proposal by an American to buy the Princesses.
Yes, further research shows that NASA or the U.S. Navy was interested in producing a nuclear powered Princess, the proposal dated 1958 and cancelled 1959.
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