Alderney RNLI  Lifeboat Station

The Alderney Lifeboat station was established in 1869, closed in 1884 and re-established in 1985.

One of the RNLI’s most active stations – averaging 30 services a year over recent years - the station has two lifeboats, the all-weather Trent class “Roy Barker I” 14-04 and the inshore D class D-551 “Spirit of Alderney”.

Braye Harbour

Station coxswain is Declan Gaudion.

Crew members have been honoured with 5 bronze medals, the most recent being awarded in November 2002 to former station mechanic Phil Murray who was helmsman of the D class lifeboat and central to the saving of three gravely endangered lives in difficult night-time conditions off Fort Clonque on 9 August that year.

Those life-saving rescues off Clonque also resulted in Thanks of the Institution on Vellum being awarded to Mark Gaudion and Dave McAllister, the first lifeboat operations manager to be so honoured in fifty years.

Further, the actions that night resulted in the Clonque rescue team being invited to meet the Prime Minister ahead of being awarded one of the ten annual national and prestigious Vodafone National Life Savers Awards .

Editors contact for details

Lifeboat press officer Nigel Soane-Sands

Tel +44(0)1481 823448 – Fax +44 (0)1481 823804

 E-mail: soanesands@alderney.net    

For the official RNLI website click here

For the Alderney Lifeboat website click here