HM Coastguard celebrates 200th birthday
From its beginnings with coastal lookouts to today’s hi-tech national network of coordination centres, Her Majesty’s Coastguard is celebrating...
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Watch as Coastguard rescues couple ‘just minutes from death’
The Coastguard has released jaw-dropping footage of an air rescue, with the crew on board a stricken yacht off...
VIDEO: Pink swim hat praised in rescue
A swimmer who was swept out to sea at Little Fistral beach in Cornwall has been rescued after being...
Coastguard Rescue Service now recruiting
HM Coastguard is recruiting for new volunteers to join the Coastguard Rescue Service in the north west of England...
Terrifying experience on famous sea stack leads to multi-agency rescue
Two climbers say they are ‘extremely grateful’ to HM Coastguard after a terrifying experience on a 60m (200ft) sandstone...
WATCH: Swimmer airlifted to safety from Porth Beach
A swimmer has been winched to safety after getting into difficulty on the water after trying to climb the...
Watch: harrowing footage of yacht crew rescue as Storm Evert causes chaos
Falmouth Coastguard Operations Centre reported a total of 22 incidents throughout the night as Storm Evert battered the South...
First drone joins HM Coastguard fleet
HM Coastguard’s first operational drone flight will join manned helicopters, planes, boats and cliff rescue teams on life-saving missions...
Desperate dig to free teenager trapped in beach hole
RNLI lifeguards have rescued an 18-year-old man trapped under a sand collapse on Fistral Beach, Newquay. The RNLI lifeguards...
US Coast Guard releases video of rescue following cargo plane crash
Rescue workers in a Coast Guard helicopter have located two pilots and pulled them from the wreckage of a...
RNLI volunteer sentenced after making hoax emergency calls to gain experience
A man has been sentenced after making false and malicious calls to HM Coastguard. The cost of these call...
