[2] On 19 October 1865, before the establishment of a lifeboat station at Alderney, Gunner James Moore of the Coast Brigade, Royal Artillery, was awarded the RNLI Silver Medal, when along with two colleagues, rescued all 17 men from the French vessel Carioca, on passage from Le Havre to Rio de Janeiro, when it struck the rocks at Point d'Else.

[2] In January 1984, a station was re-established at Alderney, and the new design Brede-class lifeboat 33-08 Foresters Future (ON 1090) was sent there, initially for a 12-month evaluation period.

The Duchess of Kent, who presented 'The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum' to John Kay-Mouat, President of the States of Alderney, for the life-saving work carried out by private boats during the previous 100 years, when there was no lifeboat on the island.

[1] During a remarkable period of four months in 1986, Alderney would see the award of three bronze medals, and five crew members accorded 'The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum'.

[1][3][5] The Waveney-class lifeboat 44-019 Louis Marchesi of Round Table (ON 1045) replaced Foresters Future in 1986, serving at Alderney for the next eight years.

[2][6] Mr Fredrick Roy Barker (1909–1992), known as Roy, was the only son of a Lincolnshire farming family, and after studying animal medicine and husbandry at university, followed by a business degree in the US, he went on to become the managing director and Chairman of Banbury Stockyard in Oxfordshire, the largest livestock trading centre in Europe.

[2] On 9 August 2002, a 13-year-old was swept into the sea at the Fort Clonque causeway, followed by her 16-year-old friend and a passer-by, in their attempts to help the girl.

Awards were made to five members of Alderney lifeboat station, for their exceptional efforts in the rescue of all three people.