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Wreck material
If you recover wreck material, for example parts of a ship or its cargo, you must report it to the Receiver of Wreck within 28 days.
Report wreck material
Beacon registry
A beacon sends a distress signal to alert search and rescue authorities to your location.
Register a beacon
Boat registration
If you own a vessel in the UK which you intend to go to sea with, you can register it with the UK Ship Register.
Register a boat

Contact us

Press office
email
Email
public.relations@mcga.gov.uk
phone
Telephone
0203 817 2222

Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.

Outside these hours or on bank holidays and weekends, for media enquiries ONLY, please send an email outlining your query and putting #Urgent in the subject title.

General enquiries
email
Email
infoline@mcga.gov.uk
phone
Telephone
0203 817 2000
address
Head office address
Spring Place
105 Commercial Road
Southampton
SO15 1EG
United Kingdom

For further contacts, visit www.gov.uk/mca

Emergency at the coast, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard
If you are deaf or have a speech impairment, you can send an emergency SMS

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