How To Use Coastguard In A Sentence
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Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.
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At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards.
The Sun
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Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
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Armed forces police and coastguard services, approximately 300.
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You try and get down to the individual soldier, airmen, sailor, Marine level, coastguardsmen duty, civilian and look them in the eye and say, ‘How's it going?’
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A dog who plunged 40 feet down a cliff on to a beach between Tenby and Saundersfoot is making a good recovery after a rescue mission involving coastguards, lifeboatmen and a vet.
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The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications later on, in the
Dracula
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Two lifeboats were also launched along with a coastguard rescue team based at the resort.
The Sun
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Like the other three Coastguard helicopters, the Sligo chopper is equipped with all the latest search and navigational equipment and has an automatic hover capability.
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A helicopter was dispatched with two ambulances, coastguards and fire crews to help with the rescue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coastguards from England carried out the rescue off the coast of Cornwall.
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The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict.
Dracula
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When he heard news of the coastguard search on the radio he contacted police to explain what had happened.
Times, Sunday Times
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The modern coastguardmen never expect to find such an animal as a smuggler: all contraband business is done by dint of craft and not by daring.
The Romance of the Coast
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When I went up to the coastguard station I found out they were starting a search.
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Yesterday coastguards renewed warnings to walkers to check tide times, wear proper clothing and shoes, and tell someone where they are going.
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Kenyan police and coastguards tracked the speedboat and were reported to have surrounded it.
Times, Sunday Times
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These can be used by coastguards and police anywhere goods can be scanned for radiation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The skipper of their dive boat sent a Mayday to Humberside Coastguard at 5.15 pm after the two had returned to the boat.
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Mr Brewer, a director of the Anglo Scottish Fish Producers' Association, hopes the report would prompt the service to restore coastguard stations to full-time cover.
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Having lost his sail and rig, he was found curled around a buoy clinging to his board by a coastguard rescue helicopter from Lee-on-the-Solent.
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Crew members contacted Shetland coastguards to alert them and the trawler's sister vessel, the MFV Falcon was called to assist.
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The inshore lifeboat manoeuvred close inshore to pick up three of the youngsters while the fourth, who had scrambled further up the cliff, was rescued by the Coastguard team by cliff line.
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Two lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter scoured the area for hours before ending their search.
The Sun
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A winchman was lowered from the helicopter and along with paramedics and coastguards assessed her condition before moving her onto a stretcher and airlifting her to hospital in Scarborough.
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The police launch boat was also there as well as the coastguards and lifeboat crew.
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Instead of this, he was -- fortunately for himself -- discovered by the active coastguardmen, and brought back to prison.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
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The skipper notified the coastguard of the tragedy.
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The operation was scaled down at noon but throughout the afternoon the coastguard continued to broadcast alerts to shipping about the missing man, who was alone on the vessel.
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Around 300 people managed to board a ship which set sail, but this was intercepted in the harbour by coastguards.
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A spokeswoman for the coastguards said the three crew members on board made a call for immediate assistance on VHF Channel 16.
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That said, every soldier, sailor, airman, marine, coastguardsman that's in Iraq is in harm's way.
CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2009
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The Venezuelan coastguard widened its search yesterday after failing to find any wreckage.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Coastguard spokesman said: "We believe they were ' tombstoning ', which is something that children don't tend to see danger in, unfortunately."
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No amount of naval ships or coastguards or draconian laws will stop it happening.
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But a major police and coastguard operation swung into action after one worried chum tipped off cops.
The Sun
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The Japanese coastguard will receive two new patrol ships and recruit 200 more personnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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At five past two this afternoon Wednesday Swansea Coastguard received a Mayday from a French sailing vessel reporting that they had dismasted and were now drifting two miles North of Lynton in North Devon.
Sailing Vessel dismasted and drifting off Lynton, North Devon
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It is protected by 20,000 police officers, air force planes fly regular patrols and coastguard and naval ships are on standby in the nearby bay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bridlington coastguard, the resort's inshore lifeboat and a helicopter from RAF Leconfield carried out a search yesterday morning.
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The Venezuelan coastguard widened its search yesterday after failing to find any wreckage.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lifeboat was launched after Fife coastguards received a distress call from the grounded vessel.
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Corey had a waterproof watch, and we knew Marquis's wife would call the coastguard if the boat wasn't back by a certain time.
The only ones: Escaping near death
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Teams of coastguards, paramedics and firemen had walked for two-and-half hours over the sands to get to the casualty, who had already spent a night trapped in torrential rain.
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Two naval ships and two coastguard vessels are also helping.
The Sun
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We don't really have a problem with maritime smuggling in the UK, the USA does, hence why their Coast Guard, which is really more of a "guard of the coast" than what we associate with the term coastguard here, is a small navy and ours is a small government agency that supplements RNLI and RAF rescue efforts.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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The coxswain gets a situation report from the coastguard and picks his crew.
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Mr Cammish started out at sea as a junior signalman in the Royal Navy in 1949 and after eight years travelling the world, he joined the Coastguard in 1957.
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While the odds were stacked against them, the trio were able to establish contact with Wellington-based Maritime Radio which relayed their plight to Bay of Plenty Coastguard.
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The sailor was forced to call coastguards when his rigging failed.
The Sun
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The coastguardman received his promotion soon afterwards, and he continued to express his contempt for man-o'-war's men and smugglers till he arrived at a very old age.
The Romance of the Coast
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That would help overcome the problem of complicity between pirates and coastguards in some countries.
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Conservative MP for South East Cornwall Sheryll Murray, whose trawlerman husband died at sea, wanted reassurances that no coastguard co-ordination centres would close before the new system works.
BBC News - Home
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South Korean coastguardsmen attempted to seize two boats illegally fishing in the zone.
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He blamed the coastguard for taking too long to come to the rescue.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a few hours, she was a total wreck, but all her crew were winched to safety by the coastguard.
Times, Sunday Times
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She revealed that moves were afoot to send in a representative of the Irish Coastguard Service to mediate between the two sides in about two weeks time to sort out the situation.
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The police and coastguard said that it was unclear why the swimmers had got into difficulties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coastguards were alerted by the woman's friend, a 14-year-old girl, who managed to swim ashore to raise the alarm.
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The Italian coastguard was searching for them.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘The Coastguard has some really nice, extremely committed people in it,’ he said.
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His disappearance sparked a search involving a coastguard helicopter and eight lifeboats.
The Sun
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Divers or beachcombers have until April 24 to hand in objects recovered from wrecks to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency without fear of prosecution.
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The coastguard assisted a Russian cargo vessel in trouble in gale force winds to the west of Orkney on Thursday night.
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An additional phase of the new development could incorporate other emergency services such as ambulances and coastguard.
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The crew's lack of English added to the difficulties to the rescue and an interpreter was brought in at Stornoway coastguard station to assist.
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Fast patrol boats will patrol the harbour constantly, 24 hours a day, and the coastguard cutters are just outside the harbour.
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A few Italian coastguard ships are not enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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I will," said he, seating himself with alacrity; and turning to the coastguardsman, he added -- "I suppose, Hellyer, you could pick a bit too, eh?
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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The houses in Atlantic View once accommodated British Coastguard officers.
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A major incident was declared by the coastguard, with two helicopters and a French tug sent to assist the stricken ship.
Times, Sunday Times
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A coastguard was lowered to his aid before a helicopter airlifted him to hospital.
The Sun
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Along the way they took recordings of the sounds of foghorns, lightships, coastguard stations and the voices of those who lived and worked there.
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He blamed the coastguard for taking too long to come to the rescue.
Times, Sunday Times
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A coastguard spokesman said: 'It was irresponsible.
The Sun
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If the former, lets hope someone has the courage to emulate the Coastguards and clap Emperor José's Viceroy in irons the moment he aor she arrives.
Coastguards Stem New Franco-German Invasion
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He raised his voice when uttering the last words, as if asking a question; so, the coastguardsman answered it at once.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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Coastguard spokesman Tony Wood said ‘The angler had hooked a big conger eel and was trying to gaff it when he was hit by the wave and swept away.’
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The weather in the Firth of Forth that day was night was described by Forth Coastguards as horrendous with gales, rough seas and freezing temperatures.
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They are all reported as being unharmed by their ordeal despite one of the Llandudno coastguards describing the flooding as the worst he has seen in the area.
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His coastguard - one seaworthy ship - sailed to Poti.
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A countdown led by the Wales Tourist Board chairman, a coastguard maroon and one of the loudest fireworks that the fireworks company could muster, sent the swim on its way.
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So we hurried up, and as Oswald came out of the cabin he heard strange voices, and his heart leaped up like the persons who "behold a rainbow in the sky," for one of the voices was the voice of that inferior and unsailorlike coastguard from Longbeach, who had gone out of his way to be disagreeable to Oswald and his brothers and sisters on at least two occasions.
New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
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He called police who launched a full-scale rescue operation involving the coastguard, fire brigade, local boats and a jet ski.
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Navy coastguard personnel retrieved seven crewmembers who had been working on a Sattahip fishing vessel after strong waves sank their boat.
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The ship was identified, and its name and position were reported to the coastguard.
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The agency revised the number upwards after fresh information from the survivors and the Italian coastguard.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this country, they acted as coastguards, stretcher bearers and couriers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lifeboat was launched after Fife coastguards received a distress call from the grounded vessel.
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Coastguards warned people to stop ‘wave-dodging’ on exposed seashores along the Yorkshire coast as winds whipped up mountainous seas.
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Two men said to have a ‘history of hijacking’ were arrested when the coastguard boarded a cruise ship 20 miles off Miami.
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It is protected by 20,000 police officers, air force planes fly regular patrols and coastguard and naval ships are on standby in the nearby bay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Constructed in 1874, it was used as a coastguard station until 1922 and was subsequently occupied by the Gardai until ten years ago.
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He said he was visiting the oil terminals, coastguard cutters, patrol boats, and larger vessels for morale and ceremonial purposes.
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Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.
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A coastguard spokesman said one had mild hypothermia but otherwise the sailors were uninjured.
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His disappearance sparked a search involving a coastguard helicopter and eight lifeboats.
The Sun
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The final part of the book concludes with life on shore, the coastguards, shipwrecks, beachcombers and history of the Ballinskelligs Cable Station.
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The three soldiers on the cover represent every soldier, sailor, airmen, Marine and coastguardsman serving in our armed forces.
CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2003
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By the time he did so, terrified passengers had already called the coastguard, warning them of the catastrophic collision.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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That _tableau_ at the end, of the starving-coastguardsman expiring under the rack, is perfectly awful!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892
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French coastguards scrambled a search party, including helicopters, and local fishing boats joined in, but the search failed to find the woman.
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The discussion included the facts and figures of the 8th annual exercise, a contingent of 5 ships with 1400 soldiers, sailors, coastguardsmen and 300 marines.
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The sailor was forced to call coastguards when his rigging failed.
The Sun
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But a major police and coastguard operation swung into action after one worried chum tipped off cops.
The Sun
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Four Italian coastguard vessels and a spotter plane were joined by at least nine passing merchant ships helping with the rescue operations yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coastguard emergency tug, Anglian Princess, accompanied the ship as far as Cape Wrath.
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Police, who are using sonar equipment and specialist diving teams, and coastguards are continuing to search the river and nearby areas of coastline.
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They endured jellyfish stings and sunburn before they were rescued by a US coastguard helicopter.
The Sun
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The Japanese coastguard will receive two new patrol ships and recruit 200 more personnel.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a few hours, she was a total wreck, but all her crew were winched to safety by the coastguard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The police and coastguard said that it was unclear why the swimmers had got into difficulties.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vessels escaped as coastguard ships redirected their efforts to rescuing Choe.
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Coastguards say tombstoning 'could leave life-changing injuries or worse'.
The Sun
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A few Italian coastguard ships are not enough.
Times, Sunday Times
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Angry coastguards in North Wales today condemned as ‘madness’ children being allowed to sail out in tiny dinghies.
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Local police have been alerted and the coastguard rescue team are at the shoreside.
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The traffickers are able to elude the tiny coastguard fleet with relative ease.
Times, Sunday Times
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Several other local fishing boats working in the area offered to assist after hearing the rebroadcast emergency call from the coastguards.
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Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.
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The helicopter landed and they were wrapped in blankets and given sandwiches and cups of tea at the coastguard station.
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With a crowded beach the Coastguards fired a maroon to signal the run down the beach from the Inn to the sea at 11.45am.
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UK coastguards were helping those in France and Spain to try to save the vessel as it drifted in a busy shipping lane.
The Sun
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Coastguards ordered a full emergency alert as the vessel drifted away from the Amoco rig 120 miles east of Aberdeen.
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It's a good idea to check with coastguards about which beaches are particularly affected by weever fish," he says.
The inside track ... on paddling
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The radio operator sent a Mayday distress call, which was logged by the local Coastguard station at 12.06 am.
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Two naval ships and two coastguard vessels are also helping.
The Sun
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The coastguard officer took the relayed message of David Lawler's transfer with professional objectivity.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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The US coastguard imposed a three-mile boat exclusion zone around the island and Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries were installed on beaches.
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The ship was identified, and its name and position were reported to the coastguard.
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Lifeboat teams and a coastguard helicopter were yesterday continuing to search the waters of the bay for him.
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The ship was identified, and its name and position were reported to the coastguard.
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Hellyer, the coastguardsman, whom Rover had seen only so recently as that very morning, when of course master doggie had accompanied Bob to the beach for his bathe; and so, naturally, there was every reason for his receiving Hellyer in a friendly manner.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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He said they were lucky because the coastguard response had been immediate and its co-ordination of the rescue outstanding.
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At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed.
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He was rescued and taken ashore to Guatemala by coastguards last year.
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Thames Coastguard at Walton said swimmers had been getting out of their depth and putting their lives in danger.
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The fishing vessel ‘Winsome’ reported his find to the Coastguard at quarter past twelve this afternoon.
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Libyan coastguard officials denied the claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a castellated former coastguard lookout at Pedn-men-du, where a man used to be stationed to sound the alert when he sighted a shoal of herring.
Country diary: Land's End, Cornwall
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A coastguard was lowered to his aid before a helicopter airlifted him to hospital.
The Sun
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The coastguard remains unaware of their plight because the boat radio has a working range of 6ft.
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We would ask anyone who is going fishing or walking in areas which are prone to be cut off to check details of high tides with their local coastguards.
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At the seaside, the coastguard reported a number of false alarms when ships mistook fireworks for distress flares.
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All Yorkshire coastguard stations were on bad weather watch and gusts of over 60 mph had been recorded at Flamborough Head.
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Coastguards found a deserted boat while patrolling the coast.
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A winchman was lowered from the helicopter and along with paramedics and coastguards assessed her condition before moving her onto a stretcher and airlifting her to hospital in Scarborough.
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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the 170-metre semi-submersible barge had since drifted into Norwegian waters.
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He blamed the coastguard for taking too long to come to the rescue.
Times, Sunday Times
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When he got to Hawaii he would supply the Coastguard Communications Centre with a complete update on our status.
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Specialist police search teams joined uniformed officers, police divers, dog handlers, volunteers, coastguards and a Royal National Lifeboat Institution hovercraft in the hunt for the child.
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They alerted the coastguards and an area around the slipway of the pier was cordoned off.
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On the way to the scene, they were briefed on the emergency by Malin coastguard radio.
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The search also involved coastguards and police.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the height of the gale, the harbourmaster radioed a coastguard on the spot and asked him to estimate the wind speed.
Pick and Mix for the weekend relief
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Four Italian coastguard vessels and a spotter plane were joined by at least nine passing merchant ships helping with the rescue operations yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Print Liverpool Coastguard in more Ribble estuary cockler rescues Further rescues of cocklers have been carried out on the Ribble Estuary - the 26th in two months.
BBC News - Home
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The pride of their Coastguard is the former River-class patrol vessel HMS Orwell, now the Essequibo.
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The coastguardsman had to shoulder the hamper when packed, as well as carry the empty water-jar; for, both Bob and Dick, whose respective burdens these had previously been, had rushed off soon after luncheon and when all interest in making a fire and boiling the kettle had ceased, down to the shore, where presently the truants were discovered.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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The captain got stuck in the lavatory because of a jammed lock and called for help, the coastguard said.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the activity of our noble Lifeboat Institution; despite the efficiency of her splendid boats, and the courage of those who man them; despite the vigour and zeal of our coastguardmen, whose working of the rocket apparatus cannot be too highly praised; despite all this, I say, hundreds of lives are lost annually on our coasts which might be saved; and I feel assured that if the British public will continue their earnest support to our great National Institution, this death-roll must continue to be diminished.
Saved by the Lifeboat
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She was missed, of course, and at first the Coastguardmen surmised that she had either dragged her anchor or parted her cable some time during the night, and had been blown out to sea.
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Coastguards also towed ashore a jet-powered boat thought to have been launched from the yacht.
The Sun
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There is no one more devoted, more committed to the hard work of freedom, than every soldier and sailor, every marine, airman and coastguardsman -- every man and every woman now serving in the Persian Gulf.
State of the Union Address
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Along the way they took recordings of the sounds of foghorns, lightships, coastguard stations and the voices of those who lived and worked there.
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Mr Fisher senior, who lives in Totton, then dialled 999 and the Coastguard helicopter was scrambled from Lee-on-the-Solent.
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Kenyan police and coastguards tracked the speedboat and were reported to have surrounded it.
Times, Sunday Times
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We now our own eyetooth hemophile vote to great coastguard clamoring to electrocution the log or proturan complexifier on the lagidium.
Rational Review
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Two men said to have a ‘history of hijacking’ were arrested when the coastguard boarded a cruise ship 20 miles off Miami.
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Two lifeboats and a coastguard helicopter scoured the area for hours before ending their search.
The Sun
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The ship sent up distress flares to attract the attention of the coastguard.
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Police sealed off paths and coastguards kept boats away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lifeboatmen and coastguards in Essex have been kept busy over the Easter bank holiday.
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The coastguardsman, indeed, appeared as unconcerned throughout all the fuss as if he were safe ashore in his own little cabin on the beach; while Rover kept close beside him, as he had done since Hellyer took charge of the hamper which he had brought on board -- the dog evidently considering himself still responsible for all the picnic goods and chattels that his young mistress had told him to watch.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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Recognising that the river was about to burst its banks he alerted the emergency services and moved the coastguard vehicle to the bridge before its hut was deluged.
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‘All those years later we were still being harried by red tape and Turkish customs and coastguards,’ Dobson recalls.
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Even when caught by the coastguard or the Immigration and Naturalisation Service they seldom get sent back.
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UK coastguards were helping those in France and Spain to try to save the vessel as it drifted in a busy shipping lane.
The Sun
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Dennis went on what he called coastguard duty, and watched the sea and shores with the untiring loyalty of a faithful dog.
The Mystery of the Green Ray
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Humber Coastguard scrambled a rescue helicopter to the scene and requested the launch of the Humber lifeboat.
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These can be used by coastguards and police anywhere goods can be scanned for radiation.
Times, Sunday Times
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They endured jellyfish stings and sunburn before they were rescued by a US coastguard helicopter.
The Sun
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A coastguard spokesman said: 'It was irresponsible.
The Sun
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The captain of the sinking ship used flares to attract the attention of the coastguard.
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Police sealed off paths and coastguards kept boats away.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the crew was able to call Humber Coastguard this morning at 6.30 am on vhf radio.
Archive 2008-10-01
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The Norwegian Coastguard closely tracks the movements of dive boats and will probably board yours during your trip.
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The survivors were lifted off by two helicopters, one from the Coastguard and one from the RAF.
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a cry is raised -- the coastguardmen and the rocket!
The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
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Grummet waved his flag energetically from the crest of the beach, and the coastguardmen busied themselves in making such slight preparations as were in their power to assist the crew in escaping from the wreck.
For Treasure Bound
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A Royal Navy Rescue Helicopter was scrambled as was the Coastguard rescue helicopter from Stornoway.
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A Lancashire police helicopter and the coastguard began a search at about 2.30 am.
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However, there was an oil slick, life rings and life rafts visible when coastguards reached the site.
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It is ... a matter of some family pride that my father was for many years a member of the auxiliary coastguard, which is now a volunteer coastguard, on Islay.
Archive 2008-05-01
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The ship was identified, and its name and position were reported to the coastguard.
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If a distress flare is inadvertently set off, please let the emergency services know by informing the coastguard and so avoiding an unnecessary lifeboat launch.
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A helicopter was dispatched with two ambulances, coastguards and fire crews to help with the rescue.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was also detained by the United States Coastguard for unseaworthiness.
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Coastguards and paramedics sprinted more than a mile to the aid of a woman who had broken her ankle while walking along a cliff edge in Whitby.
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The cabin cruiser has been detained in dry dock as police and coastguard officials continue their investigation.
