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New Funding Announced for Local Flood Rescue Teams in England And Wales
More than £820,000 has been given to 16 emergency and voluntary groups by Defra to buy rescue equipment and train them to deal with local flood emergencies.
Coastguard to Run ‘Exercise Windmill’ Within Britain’s Wind Farms
The Maritime & Coastguard Agency in conjunction with RWE npower renewables, the RNLI and RAF Search and Rescue, are due to exercise communications, co-ordination and response to a series of mock-maritime incidents in and around the wind turbines at...
Cruise Ship Calls Rescue Helicopter Twice in One Day
At 8.30 Saturday morning, Falmouth Coastguard received a call from the cruise liner ‘Braemar’, which was docked at St. Mary’s on the Isles of Scilly and had a female passenger with a broken hip that needed to be taken to hospital.
Swansea Coastguard have a Busy Afternoon
During a very busy afternoon at Swansea Coastguard, two particular incidents have stood out with safety messages for the public. The first was called in at 1.45 from a Barnstable man stuck on the cliff at Ilfracombe. He described himself as being on a...
Falmouth Coastguard Helping Starving Remote Islanders
Falmouth Coastguard is helping a group of hungry islanders, who were discovered by a British sailor whilst he was taking a yacht from Hawaii to Australia. How People Arrived Here: us coast guard supplies islanders
Man Reported Overboard From the Ullswater Lake Vessel ‘Lady of the Lake’.
At 10.15 this morning Liverpool Coastguard were alerted to a man overboard from the Ullswater lake vessel ‘Lady of the Lake’. The vessel had 53 passengers on board at the time. How People Arrived Here: Russian captain drunk overboard
Captain Pleads Guilty After Near Miss Followed By Near Grounding
On the afternoon on Wednesday 6 January 2010, the Gas Carrier ‘Sigas Sylvia’, bound from Liverpool to Tees Port was transiting the Strait of Dover when it was involved with another tanker, MV ‘Clipper Leander’. This was observed on radar by HM...
Boat Users Warned to Plan in Advance of a Strike Which Will Affect Coastguard Stations Around the UK
Britain’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is reminding boat users to look very carefully at their plans in advance of a strike called by the Public and Commercial Services Union which will affect Coastguard Stations around the United Kingdom...
