Shore teams, specialist trailers, boats, aircraft and patient handoffs each solve a different part of a coastal incident.
Coastguard Drone Unit: confirmed market details
Type 117 Coastguard Drone Unit costs 30,000 credits or 20 coins. The market explicitly shows minimum two and maximum two crew, capacity ten, and Drone Operator Training. The Search and Rescue College lists the course at five days. Vehicle ownership and empty carrying capacity do not prove that drone equipment is loaded or that a mission’s personnel requirement is satisfied.
Start with the kind of incident you want to cover
Coastal operations should be planned as several connected capabilities: response along the shore, mud and rope rescue, rescue on the water, aircraft access, and onward medical care. A shoreline full of buildings is not automatically a usable rescue network. Pick a representative incident, open its UK requirements and identify which of those capabilities it actually demands.
Our recommended first objective is a complete local response that can return to service after one call. Add a second coastal region only when the first can manage an incident without borrowing every specialist from the new location. Real station names can make the map convincing, but use travel routes and the actual dispatch selection to judge whether the placement works.
What the official vehicle FAQ confirms
- Coastguard Mud Rescue Unit requires Mud Rescue Training; Rope Rescue Unit requires Rope Rescue Training; Coastguard Commander requires Coastal Command Training.
- Mud Decontamination is a trailer, and the FAQ names the Coastguard Mud Rescue Unit as its towing vehicle.
- Inland Rescue Boat and Rescue Watercraft are trailer-based resources with the 4x4 Vehicle listed as their tow vehicle; Hovercraft Trailer lists the Hovercraft Transporter.
- Coastguard Rescue Helicopter is based at a SAR Airbase and requires Coastal Air Rescue Operations. These are official FAQ specifications; check the current purchase screen before spending.
Two cases that expose hidden gaps
Mud Rescue (546) separates the generation threshold from the team needed at the incident. It lists 30 Mud Rescue Operators available in the prerequisites but 15 at the incident, with two Mud Rescue Units and one Mud Decontamination Unit. Sending the correct vehicle names with too few qualified people can therefore leave the job unfinished.
Evacuation from Cruise Liner (553) explicitly requests two ILBs and one Coastguard Rescue Helicopter. It allows a Lifeboat Station handoff, lists 3–20 patients and marks transport probability as 100%. This is a useful test of the full journey: reaching the casualty, moving them ashore and dealing with the resulting transport work.
Commission and troubleshoot
Before activating more capability, dispatch the intended trailer with its actual carrier and check the combination leaves successfully. Then inspect the remaining local boats, crews and medical transport. One spare vessel does not provide resilience if its trained crew or towing vehicle is already occupied.
If a mission stalls, read the remaining requirement literally. Check the boat class, qualified-person count, vehicle restrictions and patient stage separately. Do not assume an ALB replaces an ILB or that any helicopter fills a Coastguard Helicopter row. Change only the shortage shown, then save a tested alarm rule for that incident family.
Sources and further reading
Latest editorial change: Added an answer-first summary, action checklist and related planning/reference link. Detailed source dates remain independent.
Official sources establish game rules; practical build orders and planning examples are TKB recommendations. Follow the UK game’s current requirement panel where a later update differs.