Coast guard · United Kingdom

HM Coastguard

Recorded as: UK COAST GUARD

The UK's coastguard, which coordinates maritime search and rescue around the British Isles.

Coast guards broadcast maritime safety information and coordinate rescue in their waters. Warnings under a coast guard's name cover distress cases, aids to navigation, security zones and operations it is running or supporting.

What the archive holds

190 messages in this archive record UK COAST GUARD as their authority, issued from 2014-12-18 to 2024-04-28. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Incidents accounts for 143 of 190 recorded messages (75%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Located messages lie in 13 sea areas, most often North Atlantic Ocean, Celtic Sea and North Sea.

The largest yearly count is 2023, with 42 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 November and least often in September.

They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (167) and HYDROPAC (23).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROLANT 901/24 · Incidents · Celtic Sea2024-04-27
    Distress signal received in 48-51.20N 008-00.10W at 271344Z apr
  2. HYDROLANT 786/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-04-13
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from M/V noraila in 51-21.00N 023-42.40W
  3. HYDROLANT 750/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-04-10
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 60-57.30N 022-46.10W at 100847Z apr
  4. HYDROLANT 687/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-04-03
    Distress signal received from vessel in 60-52.00N 015-38.30W at 030827Z apr
  5. HYDROLANT 589/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-03-21
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 58-40.80N 019-41.50W
  6. HYDROLANT 363/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-02-21
    F/V kings bay reports person onboard with suspected heart attack in 54-17.36N 015-40.42W
  7. HYDROLANT 160/24 · Other2024-01-19
    Cancel HYDROLANT 155/24 and this msg, false alert
  8. HYDROLANT 155/24 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2024-01-19
    Distress signal received from vessel in 51-41.50N 021-04.70W at 190856Z jan

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROLANT 3077/14 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2014-12-18
    Distress signal received on 406 mhz from S/V delphin in 25-11.8N 017-58.4W

Other coast guards

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