Her Majesty's Coastguard
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Her Majesty's Coastguard |
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 Gösch the British Coast Guard ( "CG") |
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| Lineup | 1829 |
| Country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Armed forces | United Kingdom Armed Forces |
| Royal Navy | marine |
| Branch of service | Coast Guard and Air-Assisted Water Rescue |
| motto | Safer Lives, Safer Ships, Cleaner Seas |
| commander | |
| Secretary of State for Transport | The Rt Hon. Patrick McLoughlin , MP |
| Aircraft | |
| patrol | Cessna 404 , Reims-Cessna F406 , Britten-Norman Islander |
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Transport aircraft / helicopter |
Sikorsky S-92 , AgustaWestland AW139 |
Her Majesty's Coastguard is the national Coast Guard of the United Kingdom . She also coordinates air rescue. The HM Coastguard has stations on the coast of the entire kingdom. It was founded in 1829 and is based in Southampton .
In the 1990s, the visual monitoring stations on the coast were abandoned because they no longer seemed up-to-date in the age of radio and radar. The National Coastwatch Institution then took over this loophole, as it turned out that coast stations are insufficient to receive all distress signals .
The HM Coastguard is a department of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency that is responsible for coordinating and alerting all civilian SAR operations in the UK SAR region. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is in turn part of the Executive Agency of the Department for Transport . The HM Coastguard is headed by Sir Alan Massey.
Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, Prince of Wales is an Honorary Commodore for the Coast Guard.
