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Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres

Contact details for Her Majesty's Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCC) in the UK and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre Dublin in Ireland. Search and rescue operations are coordinated from the MRCC and staff provide a 24 hour service to mariners and coast users in receiving incoming distress calls, alerting the appropriate rescue assets, and co-ordinating the rescue effort. In an emergency dial '999' or '112' and ask for the Coastguard.

Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCC)

MRCC Aberdeen

Aberdeen MRCC covers the area from Cape Wrath to Doonies Point

MRCC Belfast

Belfast MRCC covers the area between the Northern Ireland-Irish Republic borders at Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough

Mull of Galloway to Ardmurchan Point, including the
Islands of Jura, Gigha, Islay, Arran, Colonsay, Coll,
Tiree, Mull, Bute and Cumbrae

MRCC Brixham

Brixham MRCC covers the area from Topsham to Dodman Point

MRCC Dover

Dover MRCC covers the area from Reculver Towers to Beachy Head, Belle Tout

MRCC Dublin

MRCC Dublin is the national rescue coordination centre for the Irish search and rescue region and covers the areas from the Irish Republic-Northern Ireland borders at Lough Foyle and Carlingford Lough

MRCC Falmouth

Falmouth MRCC covers the area from Dodman Point to Marsland Mouth on the Devon-Cornwall border

MRCC Forth

Forth MRCC covers the area from Doonies Point to Berwick on Tweed (the Anglo-Scottish border)

MRCC Holyhead

Holyhead MRCC covers the area from near Froig to Queensferry on the River Dee

MRCC Humber

Humber MRCC covers the area from the Anglo-Scottish Border to Haile Sand Fort

MRCC Liverpool

Liverpool MRCC covers the area from Queensferry to the Mull of Galloway plus the English Lake District

MRCC London Coastguard

London Coastguard MRCC covers the area from Shell Haven Point-Egypt Bay to Teddington

MRCC Milford Haven

Milford Haven MRCC covers the area from the River Towy to near Friog

MRCC Portland

Portland MRCC covers the area from the Hampshire-Dorset border to Topsham

MRCC Shetland

Shetland MRCC covers the Shetland Islands, Fair Isle and the Orkney Islands

MRCC Solent

Solent MRCC covers the area from Beachy Head to the Hampshire-Dorset Border including the Isle of Wight

MRCC Stornoway

Stornoway MRCC covers the area from Arnamurchan Point to Cape Wrath and Barra Head to Butt of Lewis and St. Kilda

Mull of Galloway to Ardmurchan Point including the
Islands of Jura, Gigha, Islay, Arran, Colonsay, Coll,
Tiree, Mull, Bute and Cumbrae

MRCC Swansea

Swansea MRCC covers the area from Marsland Mouth to the River Towy

MRCC Thames

Thames MRCC covers the area from Southwold to Reculve Towers, Herne Bay

MRCC Yarmouth

Yarmouth MRCC covers the area from Haile Sand Fort to Southwold