Rescue coordination centre · United States

U.S. Coast Guard rescue centre, Boston

Recorded as: RCC BOSTON

One of the U.S. Coast Guard's rescue coordination centres; its broadcasts ask ships in its region to look out for vessels and people in distress.

Rescue coordination centres run search and rescue in their region. They issue warnings when a vessel is in distress, overdue or missing, when a person is overboard, or when a distress alert cannot be resolved, and they ask every ship in the area to keep a lookout and report. Many of their broadcasts are short-lived; seahazards publishes search-and-rescue messages only once the case has been closed for 30 days.

What the archive holds

221 messages in this archive record RCC BOSTON as their authority, issued from 2008-07-02 to 2024-04-01. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 161 of 221 recorded messages (73%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (46) and NAVAREA V (1).

Located messages lie in 1 sea area, most often North Atlantic Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2018, with 29 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in May and least often in February.

They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (173), NAVAREA IV (46) and HYDROARC (2).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 46 · NAVAREA V 1

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROLANT 662/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-03-31
    Distress signal received from S/V tres hombres in 39-01.20N 041-37.07W
  2. HYDROLANT 579/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-03-20
    Distress signal received in 41-46.00N 050-14.00W at 200015Z mar
  3. HYDROLANT 517/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-03-13
    Distress signal received in 42-45.00N 060-30.00W at 130336Z mar vessels in vicinity requested to keep a…
  4. HYDROLANT 234/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-02-01
    Distress signal received in vicinity 39-15.30N 058-10.40W
  5. HYDROLANT 195/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-01-26
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 38-58.50N 054-19.80W at 260154Z jan
  6. HYDROLANT 187/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-01-25
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from vessel in 41-14.70N 050-54.20W at 250811Z jan
  7. HYDROLANT 97/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-01-12
    Distress signal received in 41-23.50N 059-03.02W
  8. HYDROLANT 96/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-01-12
    Distress signal received in 42-28.00N 059-21.50W

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROLANT 1097/08 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2008-07-02
    36 foot S/V fubar, white hull, one person on board, unreported newburyport (42-49N 070-53W) to shetland…

Other rescue coordination centres in NAVAREA IV

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.

U.S. Coast Guard rescue centre, Boston — navigational warnings it issued · seahazards