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NCI Rame Head
Eyes along the Cornish coast. Volunteer watchkeepers protecting lives at sea and along the Cornish coast — working with HM Coastguard, the RNLI, and UK Border Force.
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VHF Channel 65
Callsign Rame Head NCI for radio checks while on watch.
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Keeping watch over Plymouth Sound & Whitsand Bay
NCI Rame Head is a volunteer National Coastwatch lookout on the Rame Peninsula, keeping a visual and radio watch over Plymouth Sound approaches, Whitsand Bay, and the busy coastal waters off south-east Cornwall.
Watchkeepers provide the eyes and ears along the coast — spotting distress flares, overturned craft, and people in difficulty that technology alone can miss — then alerting HM Coastguard so the right rescue assets can respond.
Station opened May 1998 (official opening 2 May 1999). Recipient of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.
The lookout — cream-painted Old Coastguard building with flagstaff and Coastguard mast nearby.
Working with the SAR family
Rame Head watchkeepers train and operate alongside the agencies that save lives at sea and protect the coastline.
HM Coastguard
Primary SAR authority. NCI reports incidents and maintains a listening watch so Coastguard can task the right response.
Learn more →RNLI
Local lifeboat crews — including Plymouth — train and respond alongside NCI watchkeepers on man-overboard and coastal rescues.
Learn more →UK Border Force
Maritime security partners. Watchkeepers support coastal awareness and information sharing around busy approaches.
Learn more →Published watch hours
Hours follow British Summer Time. The station may close at dusk if earlier than the published end time.
Summer
08:00 – 19:00
From start of BST; may close at dusk if earlier.
Winter
09:00 – 17:00
From end of BST; may close at dusk if earlier.
Every life we help save starts with a volunteer
Have a few hours a month? Join the watch team at Rame Head — training is provided by NCI.