Hovercraft saved - by hovercraft.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | November 3, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: BY LIAM MURPHY Daily Post Staff

NEW Brighton's lifeboat crew performed one of their most unusual rescues to date when they used a hovercraft to bring another hovercraft to shore yesterday.

Two surveyors raised the alarm using a mobile phone after their private hovercraft broke down on the Mersey and drifted across to Eastham, at around 10.30am.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institute launched a rescue hovercraft from the New Brighton station, just as the tide was beginning to go out.

The crew took several minutes searching for the ...

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