UK Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre
Recorded as: UKMRCC
HM Coastguard's rescue coordination centre, which also relays distress information for its areas of responsibility in the Atlantic.
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
438 messages in this archive record UKMRCC as their authority, issued from 1999-06-23 to 2023-12-01. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.
Incidents accounts for 346 of 438 recorded messages (79%), the largest warning type group in this selection.
Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA III (3) and NAVAREA IV (2).
Located messages lie in 23 sea areas, most often North Atlantic Ocean, Celtic Sea and North Sea.
The largest yearly count is 2002, with 46 messages.
Across all years its messages are issued most often in June and least often in March.
They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (414), HYDROPAC (22) and NAVAREA IV (2).
Messages by year of issue
By month of issue, all years
Warning types
Where
NAVAREA III 3 · NAVAREA IV 2
Most recently issued
- HYDROLANT 2778/23 · Other2023-12-01Cancel HYDROLANT 2772/23 and this msg
- HYDROLANT 2772/23 · Incidents · Celtic Sea2023-12-01Distress signal received on 406 mhz from F/V pedra blanca in 48-53.167N 008-51.183W
- HYDROLANT 2771/23 · Incidents · Celtic Sea2023-12-01Distress signal received on 406 mhz from F/V pedra blanca in 48-57.49N 009-15.83W
- HYDROLANT 2374/23 · Other2023-10-19Cancel HYDROLANT 2371/23 and this msg, false alert
- HYDROLANT 2371/23 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2023-10-19Distress signal received in 45-55.80N 028-35.20W at 191014Z oct
- HYDROLANT 1954/23 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2023-08-31Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 50-53.40N 013-06.30W at 311209Z aug
- HYDROLANT 1953/23 · Incidents · North Atlantic Ocean2023-08-31Distress signal received on 406 mhz in 50-54.10N 013-09.90W at 311209Z aug
- HYDROPAC 2235/23 · Incidents2023-07-08Cancel HYDROPAC 2232/23 and this msg, person rescued
Earliest in the archive
Other rescue coordination centres in NAVAREA III
Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.