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UK Maritime Component Command (UKMCC) is a Royal Navy Command located at HMS Jufair in Bahrain. Commander, United Kingdom Maritime Component Command
The JRCC is also home to the UK Cospas-Sarsat Mission Control Centre (UKMCC). This is the centre that detects emergency beacons within the UK Search and Rescue Region (SRR) using an advanced computer system.
The professional head of the Royal Navy is known as the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff (1SL/CNS).. There are presently two senior subordinates to the 1SL: the Second Sea Lord, who is also the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff; and the Fleet Commander.
The United Kingdom Naval Support Facility (UKNSF) is a Royal Navy (RN) base established in Bahrain on 13 April 1935, originally known as HMS Jufair, as part of the port at Mina Salman.
His Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG) is the section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible, through the Secretary of State for Transport to Parliament, for the initiation and co-ordination of all maritime search and rescue (SAR) within the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region.
The BBC reported that the first-known mince-pie recipe dates back to an 1830s-era English cookbook. By the mid-17th century, people reportedly began associating the small pies with Christmas. At ...
In 2006 Handley assumed the duties of Assistant Director at the Higher Command and Staff Course at the UK Defence Academy before being appointed to Bahrain as the Deputy UKMCC in 2008. Promoted to Commodore on his return, Handley was appointed to the Navy Command Headquarters in Portsmouth as ACOS Warfare, bringing together and prioritising ...
Within the Cospas-Sarsat programme, Mission control centres (MCCs) are responsible for receiving and distributing distress signal alerts from emergency position-indicating radiobeacon stations.