What is "coastguard"

Usage examples of "coastguard".

They said the coastguards had sent them to fetch it into a yard in Itchenor.

She started slightly on seeing Herbert, whom she had taken for a coastguard, she said.

For the house on the beach had only, in most distant times, been threatened by the sea, and no house on earth was better protected from man,--Neptune, in the shape of a coastguard, being paid by Government to patrol about it during the hours of darkness.

Two of the coastguard jumped out, and handed him to the dry bank, while Herbert, Van Diemen, and Crickledon took him by hand and arm, and hoisted him on to the flint wall, preparatory to his descent into the field.

Royal Navy or the Coastguard listening in and wondering what was going on.

To the east, in the sea off Sakhalin Island, a thousand tiny boats made for Japan in a single night as the Red Coastguard stayed in port drinking vodka and consorting with whores.

The combe ends in a sandy cove with black rock on one side, pinkish cliffs away to the headland on the other, and a coastguard station.

I spent it at the coastguard station, where they gave me bread and cheese and some awful cider.

In the evening, as I was starting for the coastguard station to ask for help to search the cliff, Pasiance appeared, walking as if she could hardly drag one leg after the other.

One of these last, a refined coastguard, was found next morning, badly bruised and half frozen in the snow.

State Department, and in half an hour the Navy and the Coastguard will be here.

I expect the Navy and the Coastguard and the Marines will be on their way before morning.

On the other hand, if you try to escape in the March Hare, the Coastguard seaplanes will find it without much trouble.

The coastguards voice was slowing as though something were occurring to him.

He's also going to arrange to have the wreck marked with an official coastguard buoy and protected around the clock by an official coastguard patrol.