Rescue coordination centre · United States

U.S. Coast Guard rescue centre, Norfolk

Recorded as: RCC NORFOLK

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

738 messages in this archive record RCC NORFOLK as their authority, issued from 2000-01-30 to 2024-05-08. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 544 of 738 recorded messages (74%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA IV.

Located messages lie in 7 sea areas, most often North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and South Atlantic Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2022, with 72 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 (612), NAVAREA IV (123), HYDROPAC (2) and HYDROARC (1).

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Where

NAVAREA IV 123

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA IV 516/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-05-08
    Derelict vessel, black hull, capsized and adrift in vicinity 31-09.00N 062-12.80W
  2. HYDROLANT 919/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-04-30
    Distress signal received in 21-28.60N 048-01.93W at 300940Z apr
  3. HYDROLANT 918/24 · Other2024-04-30
    Cancel HYDROLANT 917/24 and this msg
  4. HYDROLANT 917/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-04-30
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 22-53.53N 041-31.07W at 300105Z apr
  5. NAVAREA IV 477/24 · Derelicts · North Atlantic Ocean2024-04-28
    Derelict vessel, orange survival craft with white x's, adrift in 31-05.50N 046-55.50W
  6. HYDROLANT 902/24 · Other2024-04-27
    Cancel HYDROLANT 897/24 and this msg, assistance no longer needed
  7. HYDROLANT 897/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-04-27
    Distress signal received from S/V nomad's land in 30-29.00N 050-27.57W at 270815Z apr
  8. HYDROLANT 884/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-04-25
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 36-00.00N 064-00.00W at 252118Z apr

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROLANT 339/00 · Incidents · South Atlantic Ocean2000-01-29
    Distress signal received from M/V philippe ld vicinity 05-03S 005-45W at 291700Z jan

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.