On 29/03/2013 09:21, soup wrote:
whisky-dave wrote:

Strange that considering I was told by someone on here yesyerday that
it was run by a charity/charities

Mountain rescue teams, lifeboats etc are run by charities but this
is for the military run SAR you know sea kings/nimrods etc, whose
primary role was retrieval of downed military pilots, civilian SAR was
a (very important) sideshoot to this role.


ASIDE:-
Are the coastgaurd considered as governmental or are they a charity
run thing?


It is currently part of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, which is
part of the Department for Transport, although it has been handed around
a number of different Ministries and Departments since the Board of
Trade took it over from the Admiralty in 1923. Its origins were as part
of HM Customs. They have had sub-contracted SAR helicopters at four
bases for quite some time now.

The Coastguard Rescue Service, which does cliff, swift water and mud
rescue and searches for missing people is a volunteer body within HM
Coastguard.

Colin Bignell