Category: HM Coastguard Stations

Categories: HM Coastguard

This category groups categories of HM Coastguard stations or centres.

Station categories should follow this naming scheme: [[Category:Station Name]]. No location is needed UNLESS the name is repeated .

The parent categories should be [[Category:HM Coastguard Stations]] and the location for where the station is. Identifying the location for the station takes care, they can be found from
• The RN records of service at the National Archives. This is not eay unless you have the Service Number of the CG Boatman from a RootsSearch source.
• Parish Registers of the birth of a child. The church may be a couple of miles inland from the CG Station.
• Census records. If you can access an image of the original record you may be able to trace the enumerator’s route. Be aware that the Census district “location” may be several miles inland from the station, and the district may cover several stations.
• GRO records of birth marriage and death. The Record District office may be 20 or more miles from any station.
• A search of the OS survey maps, 6inch series held at https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=5.0&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000&layers=102&b=1&z=0&point=0,0 for the location of the nearest town and time frame.
Having located the station use the categorisation tool to add it to your profile. If it has not yet been created add the new one, using the correct format [[Category:HMCG Station name]] and save the profile
You will receive an error message stating that the profilke does not exist, but allowing “save anyway” - save again.
The new category will appear in red. Click on it and an empty shell will open.
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[[Category:HM Coastguard Stations|###]] (### represents the first few letters of the name, ensure that there are enough so that the station is listed alphabetically on the top level list)

This category groups profiles of persons associated with HMCG ####, a coastguard station on the ##### coast (with more detail as appropriate).

See OS Survey on https://maps.nls.uk/view/nnnnn and/or any other online reference.

Review the new text, then save. Then check that it appears correctly within the list of stations.

This category is managed by the Military and War Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and Military and War.

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