Lindholme Gear (also known as Air Sea Rescue Apparatus Mk 4) was a British air-dropped rescue equipment designed during the Second World War to aid survivors in the water and was still in use in the 21st century.
[3] The Lindholme Gear is five cylinder-shaped containers joined together by lengths of floating rope.
[4] The Gear would be carried in the weapons bay of the aircraft and dropped in a long line up-wind of the survivors.
[1] The Lindholme Gear was originally designed to be carried by Handley Page Hampden aircraft[5] but was mainly carried by Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft like the Vickers Warwick and later the Avro Lancaster, Avro Shackleton and Hawker Siddeley Nimrod.
[6] Lindholme gear was also carried in the bomb bay by the Royal Australian Air Force maritime patrol aircraft Lockheed P-3B & P-3C Orions, consisting of two 10-man liferafts and two stores containers; this equipment was later replaced by ASRK (Air Sea Rescue Kits).