Coastguard Rescue Service areas and stations
A list of the Coastguard Rescue Service areas across the UK and the volunteer stations in each of them.
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Use this information to find out what area a HM Coastguard station is in, if you want to volunteer for the service. You will need to know this when filling in your coastguard rescue officer application.
Updates to this page
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Updated Area 14 to include New Quay and Tywyn coastguard rescue teams.
Update history
2026-07-02 11:34
Updated list of active coastguard rescue teams.
2025-06-10 11:52
Updated Area 14 to include New Quay and Tywyn coastguard rescue teams.
2024-11-11 08:27
Updated list of active coastguard rescue teams.
2024-09-20 07:34
Renaming area 10 from south west England to south Devon.
2024-08-20 10:16
Updates to some of the station names in Area 10.
2024-07-04 16:19
Area 12 station list updated.
2024-02-22 10:46
Moved stations Flint, Rhyl and Llandudno to Area 14: north Wales to New Quay, mid-Wales. Removed out of date PDF map.
2023-11-14 15:07
Nairn station moved from Area 3 to Area 2. Stations also put into alphabetical order to help users navigate content.
2023-10-31 00:01
First published.