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OVERVIEW HSLM Coast Guard is a law enforcement and search and rescue agency reporting to the Ministry of Public Safety. It is responsible for securing Serpens Land's maritime borders, performing search and rescue duties, and patrolling ports and waterways. It facilitates maritime trade and the movement of people while preventing harmful goods and persons from entering Serpens Land. Coast Guard staff carry out their duties from over 50 coast guard stations and ports around Serpens Land. It operates over 100 maritime vessels of various sizes and 20 helicopters. RESPONSIBILITIES Formed in 2001, HSLM Coast Guard is responsible for: ensuring the security of Serpens Land's maritime borders; checking maritime vessels visiting Serpens Land and her territories for illicit goods and illegal immigrants; patrolling Serpens Land's coastal waters and enforcing maritime regulations; maintaining maritime navigation aides; promoting maritime safety; maritime environmental protection; maritime search and rescue; responding to maritime disasters. PERSONNEL HSLM Coast Guard is a civilian law enforcement and search and rescue agency. It is not affiliated with the Serpens Land Armed Forces. However, some of their duties - such as search and rescue - may overlap. Despite being a law enforcement agency, HSLM Coast Guard does not follow a conventional law enforcement or paramilitary rank structure. Coast Guard ranks are based off of those used by the civilian merchant navy. Some elements of the rank insignia contain images under a creative commons licence. See Coat of Arms for attribution

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Officer Cadet	Third Officer	Second Officer	Chief Officer	Second Master	Sailing Master

Different roles within HSLM Coast Guard are denoted by coloured bands on the rank insignia. Regular and deck officers wear standard black insignia, engineering officers wear purple insignia, electrical officers wear green insignia, medical officers wear red insignia, and logistics officers wear white insignia. The examples below are of a chief officer. Colours remain the same for all ranks.

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Regular/Deck	Engineering Officer	Electrical Officer	Medical Officer	Logistics Officer

TRAINING All aspiring coast guardsmen attend the Serpens Land Coast Guard Academy where they receive basic law enforcement, firearms, and seamanship training. Coast guardsmen also receive practical training onboard coast guard vessels before they graduate the Coast Guard Academy. After graduation, coast guardsmen move on to more specialised training for their chosen occupation within HSLM Coast Guard. OUR FLEET HSLM Coast Guard operates over 100 vessels of varying sizes. Coast Guard vessels carry the prefix HSLMC, standing for His Serpens Land Majesty's Cutter. Original ship images are taken from shipbucket.com and are published under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. Edits done by Serpens land are not endorsed by the original authors. SPECIFICATIONS Length: 81 metres Beam: 16 metres Max speed: 16 knots Crane capacity: 24 tonnes/metre Accommodation: 44 passengers SHIPS IN FLEET HSLMC Richard Seymour C.S.W.I. HSLMC Arthur Bennet HSLMC Rachel Morris HSLMC James Roberts SPECIFICATIONS Length: 56.8 metres Beam: 9.7 metres Max speed: 25 knots Armament: 1 x 25 mm autocannon, 2 x 50 calibre machine guns Compliment: 21 crew, max 150 persons on board SHIPS IN FLEET HSLMC Sergeant Pitt V.C. HSLMC Corporal Roberts O.M. HSLMC Captain Smith HSLMC J.J. Roberts P.C. HSLMC Corporal Healy V.C. HSLMC Lieutenant J. Higgins HSLMC Admiral H. Nelson HSLMC General I. Brock HSLMC Private I. Issacs C.V.

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