Firth Patrol/LIfeboat
The Royal Westarctican Navy Headquarters Detachment (Scotland) is currently developing and undergoing certification as a Patrol and Search-and-Rescue (SAR) team. The unit is being established to operate as a patrol force within the Firth of Forth, particularly around the South Queensferry islands and the Three Forth Bridges.
Crews actively participate in Project ShoreBox, conduct island patrols, and support beach clean-up operations. The long-term goal is to become a fully operational maritime response unit.
Personnel are trained as powerboat bosuns, open-water rescue swimmers, radio operators, and SAR medical technicians. MORE TO COME SOON
Project ShoreBox
Project Shorebox is the brainchild of Captain Christopher Watson, CNO of the Royal Westarctican Navy. Each Shorebox is equipped with essential survival supplies, including signalling equipment, emergency thermal blankets and hoods, a fire-starting kit, and emergency rations providing everything needed to stay warm, fed, and safe if stranded on the islands of the Firth of Forth near South Queensferry, Scotland.
The project has partnered with the charity SleepingPods, an organisation dedicated to supplying thermal shelters to homeless people across the UK. You can learn more about SleepingPods by clicking the box below.