Innovative Transport for RNLI Rescue Hovercraft

When the hovercraft carrying demountable platform is raised, the lorry is driven out. The platform is then lowered to the ground and the hovercraft floated off on its air cushion.

People caught on quicksands or by incoming tide on the immense notorious mudflats of Morecambe Bay UK will be thankful for salvation in the form of a new road transportable hovercraft which has been put into service by the RNLI .

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