Flying Cutlass

Flying Cutlass

Flying Cutlass in 2019
Lightwater Valley Location Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, UK Status Operating since 2011 Rider height Minimum: 110 cm Min. unaccompanied: 130 cm
Loudoun Castle Name HMS Flora MacDougal Location Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK Operated 2003 to 2010 Replaced Viking Dreamland Margate Name Bounty Location Margate, Kent, England, UK Operated 1996 to 2002 Replaced Tri-Star Funland Park Name Bounty Location Folkestone, Kent, England, UK Operated 1986 to 1995 Replaced by Tri-Star Pleasurama Amusement Park Name Bounty Location Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK Operated During 1985 Lion Safari Park Tüddern Location Tüddern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Operated c.1979 to c.1984 Franz Brusch (Germany) Location Travelling Operated 1978 to unknown
Statistics
Manufacturer	HUSS
Product	Pirat
Capacity	45 to 50 per cycle
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Flying Cutlass is a Pirate Ship built by German manufacturer HUSS currently located at Lightwater Valley in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, UK. It has operated in the park’s Skeleton Cove area since the area's opening in April 2011. It was one of a number of rides purchased by the park from Loudoun Castle following its closure at the end of 2010.

History

Bounty, as the ride was originally known, was one of the first batch of Pirat rides to be built by German manufacturer HUSS in 1978. It was owned by German showman Franz Bruch from 1978.

In 1985 the Bounty was purchased by amusement park operator Jimmy Godden and placed at his Pleasurama Amusement Park at Ramsgate. From here the ride was transferred to another of Godden’s parks Rotunda Amusement Park in Folkestone for the 1986 season. It operated at Folkestone for a decade, until the end of the 1995 season. Godden had just purchased Dreamland Margate from the Bembom Brothers, and decided to swap his Bounty at Folkestone with the Tri-Star from Dreamland Margate. It was operated by Godden at Dreamland Margate until the end of the 2002 season.

For the 2003 season the ride was sold to Henk Bembom for use at his newly purchased Loudoun Castle theme park. The ride’s long-standing name of Bounty was changed to HMS Flora MacDougal to reflect its new location of Scotland. The park closed at the end of the 2010 season, and the ride was one of many rides purchased by Lightwater Valley.

External links

• Images of the ride on NFCA Digital.

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