RNZAF personnel practice rubber dinghy drill. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.

RNZAF personnel practice rubber dinghy drill. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.

RNZAF personnel practice rubber dinghy drill. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.

RNZAF personnel practice rubber dinghy drill. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.

RNZAF personnel practice rubber dinghy drill. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.

RNZAF personnel practice rubber dinghy drill. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.

RNZAF personnel practice rubber dinghy drill. Believed to be at RNZAF Station Whenuapai.

Tongan castaways preparing to get into a rubber dinghy during their rescue from Minerva Reef by a No. 5 Squadron Sunderland crew.

Tongan castaways in a rubber dinghy during their rescue from Minerva Reef by a No. 5 Squadron Sunderland crew.

Image from the KR Bremner personal collection. Tongan castaways in a rubber dinghy during their rescue from Minerva Reef by a No. 5 Squadron Sunderland crew.

Image from the RM Cattermole personal album collection. Two men in a swimming pool, carrying out a dinghy drill. Unknown location.

Image from the RM Cattermole personal album collection. Man carrying out a dinghy drill in a swimming pool, unknown location.

Image from the RM Cattermole personal album collection. Man floating in a dinghy during a drill at a swimming pool, unknown location.

Image from the RM Cattermole personal album collection. Man floating in a dinghy during a drill in a swimming pool, unknown location.

Group of airmen being shown a rubber dinghy and life preserver, during a pre-flight briefing. Believed to be at RNZAF Station. Whenuapai. Note United States type life preserver.

Image from the DH Mann personal album collection. "Paddling 'K' type dinghy after Lindholme Dinghy." Aerial oblique view of a downed No. 489 Squadron crew, DH Mann and DM Kennedy (RAF), in their life raft. Douglas Haig Mann's log book records "Aircraft badly damaged in starboard wing by collision. Ditched off Terschelling at 0155 hrs. Picked up by H.S.L. [High Speed launch] 2679 off Texel on 10/10/44 after 184 hrs 35 mins in dinghy."

Image from the DH Mann personal album collection. "Paddling 'K' type dinghy after Lindholme Dinghy." Aerial oblique view of a downed No. 489 Squadron crew, DH Mann and DM Kennedy (RAF), in their life raft. Douglas Haig Mann's log book records "Aircraft badly damaged in starboard wing by collision. Ditched off Terschelling at 0155 hrs. Picked up by H.S.L. [High Speed launch] 2679 off Texel on 10/10/44 after 184 hrs 35 mins in dinghy."

Image from the DH Mann personal album collection. "Paddling 'K' type dinghy after Lindholme Dinghy." Aerial oblique view of a downed No. 489 Squadron crew, DH Mann and DM Kennedy (RAF), in their life raft. Douglas Haig Mann's log book records "Aircraft badly damaged in starboard wing by collision. Ditched off Terschelling at 0155 hrs. Picked up by H.S.L. [High Speed launch] 2679 off Texel on 10/10/44 after 184 hrs 35 mins in dinghy."

Image from the DH Mann personal album collection. "Paddling 'K' type dinghy after Lindholme Dinghy." Aerial oblique view of a downed No. 489 Squadron crew, DH Mann and DM Kennedy (RAF), in their life raft. Douglas Haig Mann's log book records "Aircraft badly damaged in starboard wing by collision. Ditched off Terschelling at 0155 hrs. Picked up by H.S.L. [High Speed launch] 2679 off Texel on 10/10/44 after 184 hrs 35 mins in dinghy."

No. 489 Squadron crew, Flying Officer DH Mann and his English Navigator, Flight Sergeant DM Kennedy being rescued from their dinghy by personnel on RAF High Speed launch 2679. Douglas Haig Mann's log book records "Aircraft badly damaged in starboard wing by collision. Ditched off Terschelling at 0155 hrs. Picked up by H.S.L. [High Speed launch] 2679 off Texel on 10/10/44 after 184 hrs 35 mins in dinghy."

Station publicity. Unknown Leading Aircraftman making a clinker-built dinghy in the Hobbies Club. RNZAF Station Ohakea.

Damaged Lindholm Dinghy after (presumably accidental) inflation in the bomb bay of a No. 5 Squadron Orion. Whenuapai, RNZAF Base Auckland.

Seaplane Training Flight personnel rigging a dinghy. RNZAF Station, Hobsonville. See Contact Magazine, October 1943, pages 14-19 and September, page 42. L-R: Unknown Sergeant pupil, Flying Officer Evans - engineer, Flying Officer HA "Walter" Nash - instructor, unknown pupil, Flight Lieutenant L Higgins and Horgan? - pupil.

Walrus NZ151 and a yacht used by the Seaplane Training Flight at RNZAF Station Hobsonville. See Contact Magazine, October 1943, pages 14-19 and September, page 42.

Members of a Navigators course from RNZAF Station, Wigram, at Dinghy Drill practice at a swimming pool somewhere in Christchurch.