page_title: Rescue buoy (Luftwaffe)
section_title: British Equivalent
hierarchical_section_title: Rescue buoy (Luftwaffe) / British Equivalent
caption_attribution_description: English: Air-Sea Rescue craft, WW2. Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland
context_page_description: The Luftwaffe's rescue buoy was designed to provide shelter for the pilots or crew of aircraft shot down or forced to make an emergency landing over water.
context_section_description: A British equivalent, the Air-Sea Rescue Float was also developed and deployed.  They used a boat-shaped hull of welded steel. Sixteen were constructed, and they were deployed under the main routes bombers took to and from continental Europe. They were equipped with cooking facilities, signal flags, a radio and six bunks. Food, blankets, clothing, drinking water and first-aid supplies were carried.
  One example - ASR-10 is in the collection of the Scottish Maritime Museum. During the war, it was deployed in the English Channel at Dover. In the 1950s it was converted into a yacht but it has since been restored to its original configuration.
caption: Air Sea Rescue Float, ASR-10, displayed at the Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine, 2013
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