# U.S. Coast Guard Search And Rescue HH-52A Helicopters In action 79044

This 1960s Sikorsky Aircraft film, made for the U.S. Coast Guard, shows the activities of the Coast Guard along Atlantic and Pacific shores. The film includes footage of ships in distress beginning at the 2:30 mark, including a crippled passenger liner, a freighter on fire at sea, and more. Coast Guard helicopters and aircraft are seen operating in flood stricken areas, and at sea. A flying boat is seen at the 4:40 mark, and a 1940s helicopter is seen at the 5:00 mark. A new amphibious helicopter is seen at the 5:30 mark. This is the Sikorsky HH-52A Sea Guard. At the 6:30 mark, weather station activities are shown. At 7:48, a full scale emergency scramble is shown with the HH-52 taking flight in a life saving mission to rescue a swimmer from the water. At the 9:16 mark, a helicopter makes a rescue at sea from an oil tanker. Other rescues are seen on land and sea. The Sikorsky HH-52 Seaguard (company designation S-62) was a single turbine engine, three-blade rotor amphibious helicopter. Originally developed as a commercial venture by the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation of Stratford, Connecticut, it was used by the United States Coast Guard primarily for air-sea rescue and known as the "Flying lifeboat". The HH-52 has been replaced by non-amphibious types such as the HH-65 Dolphin, which rely solely on the use of a winch from a low hover to conduct rescue operations. A number of S-62s were bought by the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics for the US Coast Guard for use as a search…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/79044FlyingLifeboat)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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