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HMS Gannet SAR Flight is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron based at RNAS Prestwick in Scotland.It operates three Sea King Mk5 helicopters in the military and civilian Search and Rescue role across Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland. Personnel at the base consists of 15 officers, 11 ratings, 28 civil servants and 50 civilian staff. Gannet SAR also provides an important medical evacuation service to the many island communities and remote areas of Scotland. The crews feature regularly on the Channel 5 documentary series Highland Emergency.2009 saw the unit break a new record as…mehr

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HMS Gannet SAR Flight is a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm squadron based at RNAS Prestwick in Scotland.It operates three Sea King Mk5 helicopters in the military and civilian Search and Rescue role across Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland. Personnel at the base consists of 15 officers, 11 ratings, 28 civil servants and 50 civilian staff. Gannet SAR also provides an important medical evacuation service to the many island communities and remote areas of Scotland. The crews feature regularly on the Channel 5 documentary series Highland Emergency.2009 saw the unit break a new record as they were tasked to over 400 call outs. This made them, for the second year in succession, the busiest Search & Rescue base in the UK.A number of ships have borne the name HMS Gannet, the first being a wooden sloop registered in March 1800. The seventh and final sea-going craft to bear the name was a river gunboat, commissioned in 1934. She was laid up and presented to the Chinese Navy in February 1942.In May 1943 for the first time, the name HMS Gannet was given to a shore establishment, RNAS) Eglington, in Northern Ireland.