Guidance

Coastguard Rescue Service areas and stations in the UK

Updated 11 November 2024

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Area 1: Shetland and Orkney Islands

  • Baltasound
  • Hillswick
  • Hoy
  • Kirkwall
  • Lerwick
  • Mid Yell
  • Sanday
  • Stromness
  • St Margaret’s Hope
  • Sumburgh
  • Walls
  • Westray
  • Whalsay

Area 2: north Scotland

  • Achiltibuie
  • Applecross
  • Cromarty
  • Dornoch
  • Duncansby Head
  • Durness
  • Gairloch
  • Inverness
  • Kinlochbervie
  • Loch Ewe
  • Lochinver
  • Melness
  • Melvich
  • Nairn
  • Scrabster
  • Ullapool
  • Wick

Area 3: east Scotland

  • Aberdeen
  • Arbroath
  • Buckie
  • Burghead
  • Cruden Bay
  • Dundee
  • Fraserburgh
  • Macduff
  • Montrose
  • Peterhead
  • Portsoy
  • Stonehaven

Area 4: Inner Clyde to River Tay and east Scottish border

  • Ardrossan
  • Cumbrae
  • Dunbar
  • Dunoon
  • Fisherrow
  • Greenock
  • Helensburgh
  • Kames
  • Kinghorn
  • Largs
  • Leven
  • North Berwick
  • Rothesay
  • South Queensferry
  • St Andrews

Please see Area 5 for the station in Eyemouth.

Area 5: north-east England

  • Amble
  • Berwick
  • Blyth
  • Eyemouth
  • Hartlepool
  • Holy Island
  • Howick
  • Newbiggin
  • Redcar
  • Seahouses
  • Seaham
  • Sunderland
  • Staithes
  • Whitby

Area 6: east of England (Yorkshire, Humberside and Lincolnshire)

  • Bridlington
  • Cleethorpes
  • Donna Nook
  • Filey
  • Hornsea
  • Hull
  • Mablethorpe
  • Ravenscar
  • Scarborough and Burniston
  • Skegness
  • Sutton Bridge
  • Withernsea
  • Wrangle

Area 7: East Anglia

  • Aldeburgh
  • Bacton
  • Canvey Island
  • Clacton
  • Cromer
  • Felixstowe
  • Gorleston
  • Holbrook
  • Hunstanton
  • Lowestoft
  • Sheringham
  • Shingle Street
  • Southend
  • South Woodham Ferrers
  • Walton
  • Wells
  • West Mersea
  • Winterton

Area 8: south-east England

  • Bexhill
  • Birling Gap
  • Deal
  • Eastbourne
  • Folkestone
  • Hastings
  • Herne Bay
  • Langdon
  • Littlehampton
  • Margate
  • Medway
  • Newhaven
  • Romney Marsh
  • Rye Bay
  • Selsey
  • Sheppey
  • Shoreham

Area 9: southern England including the Isle of Wight

  • Bembridge
  • Hayling Island
  • Hill Head
  • Kimmeridge
  • Lulworth
  • Lyme Regis
  • Lymington
  • Needles
  • Portsmouth
  • Poole
  • Portland Bill
  • Southampton
  • Southbourne
  • St Albans
  • Swanage
  • Ventnor
  • West Bay
  • Wyke

Area 10: south Devon

  • Beer
  • Bigbury
  • Brixham
  • Dartmouth
  • Dawlish
  • Exmouth
  • Kingsbridge
  • Looe
  • Paignton
  • Plymouth
  • Polruan
  • Tamar
  • Torbay
  • Yealm

Area 11: Cornwall including Isles of Scilly

  • Falmouth
  • Land’s End
  • Mevagissey
  • Mullion Lizard
  • Newquay
  • Padstow
  • Penzance
  • Porthoustock
  • Porthleven
  • Portreath
  • Portscatho
  • St Agnes (north Cornwall)
  • St Austell
  • St Ives
  • St Martin (Isles of Scilly)
  • St Marys (Isles of Scilly)
  • Tresco (Isles of Scilly)

Area 11 will not be be recruiting again until September 2025.

Area 12: north Devon including Severn Estuary

  • Bideford
  • Boscastle
  • Bude
  • Burnham on Sea
  • Clevedon
  • Croyde
  • Hartland
  • Lundy
  • Lynmouth
  • Minehead
  • Mullacott
  • Polzeath
  • Portishead
  • Watchet
  • Weston-super-Mare

Area 13: south-east Wales to mid-Wales

  • Barry Island
  • Broadhaven
  • Burry Port
  • Cardigan
  • Chepstow
  • Dale
  • Fishguard
  • Llansteffan
  • Llantwit Major
  • Moylegrove
  • Mumbles
  • New Quay
  • Oxwich
  • Penarth
  • Porthcawl
  • Port Talbot
  • Rhossili
  • St David’s
  • St Govans
  • Tenby

Area 14: north Wales to New Quay, mid-Wales

  • Aberdaron
  • Aberdyfi
  • Abersoch
  • Aberystwyth
  • Bangor
  • Barmouth
  • Borth
  • Cemaes Bay
  • Criccieth
  • Flint
  • Holyhead
  • Landwrog
  • Llandudno
  • Moelfre
  • Penmon
  • Porthdinllaen
  • Rhosneigr
  • Rhyl

Area 15: north-west England

  • Arnside and South Lakes
  • Burgh by Sands
  • Crosby
  • Fleetwood
  • Furness
  • Knott End
  • Lytham St Annes
  • Maryport
  • Millom
  • Morecambe
  • Southport
  • Whitehaven
  • Wirral

Area 16: Solway to Firth of Clyde including Northern Ireland

  • Annan
  • Ayr
  • Ballantrae
  • Ballycastle
  • Bangor
  • Coleraine
  • Drummore
  • Lough Erne
  • Girvan
  • Isle of Whithorn
  • Kilkeel
  • Kirkcudbright
  • Larne
  • Lough Neagh
  • Newcastle
  • Portaferry
  • Portling
  • Portmuck
  • Portpatrick
  • Rathlin
  • Stranraer

Area 17: Kintyre to Mull, Isle of Arran and Inner Hebrides

  • Arran
  • Campbeltown
  • Colonsay
  • Coll
  • Craignure
  • Crinan
  • Gigha
  • Inveraray
  • Jura
  • Oban
  • Port Charlotte
  • Port Ellen
  • Ross of Mull
  • Tarbert
  • Tiree
  • Tobermory

Area 18: Loch Linnhe to Outer Hebrides including Skye and the Small Isles

  • Bragar
  • Barra
  • Benbecula
  • Breasclete
  • Canna
  • Duntulm
  • Dunvegan
  • Eigg
  • Fort William
  • Harris
  • Kilchoan
  • Knoydart
  • Kyle of Lochalsh
  • Lochaline
  • Lochboisdale
  • Lochmaddy
  • Mallaig
  • Miavaig
  • Muck
  • Ness
  • Portree
  • Rhum
  • Salen
  • Stornoway
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