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Hovercraft and small boats specialist, Griffon Marine, is reshaping the future of defense and marine innovation
With over six decades of expertise, Griffon Marine specializes in vessel design, manufacture, and consultancy, helping clients navigate the evolving challenges of marine operations across maritime border security, amphibious insertion, riverine patrol, and highspeed near-coastal ferry services. Whether designing new vessels from the ground up or enhancing existing fleets, the company’ s tailored solutions improve performance, sustainability and compliance, thus preparing vessels for the demands of a rapidly changing maritime landscape.
“ Griffon Marine was established in the 1960s, and today we are the result of an amalgamation of several British hovercraft manufacturing businesses from that decade onwards. At the time, many British companies started research, development, prototyping, and, ultimately, the commercialization of hovercraft. However, from the 1980s into the 1990s, they started to realize that the marketplace was challenging for various reasons, so companies began to shift away from those vessels. This led to many mergers of technology and intellectual property( IP), where one company would acquire the IP from another that was exiting the sector. The IP, knowledge, and competencies built up over that period carried through into the 2000s. Griffon Hoverwork, the previous form of who we are today, came into being in 2009 as the merger of the last two significant UK hovercraft manufacturers: Griffon Hovercraft and Hoverwork. The latter carried the longer history and a substantial body of IP, while Griffon Hovercraft was a family-run
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