[2] In 1964, in response to an increasing amount of water-based leisure activity, the RNLI placed 25 small fast Inshore lifeboats around the country.

[1] Trials were held in October 1989, using the B-class (Atlantic 21) lifeboat and its Talus Drive-off Drive-on (Do-Do) launching trolley.

[2] At 21:36 on 1 January 1994, St Catherine Atlantic 21-class lifeboat Jessie Eliza (B-587) was launched into very poor conditions and 30-knot winds, to reports of a surfer in trouble, 12 miles (19 km) away, off Plemont, to the north west of the island.

At 08:12, the pilot boat Ronez recovered the second missing surfer, over 10 miles (16 km) away from the initial position, near St Aubins Bay, on the south of the island.

[5] Long serving St Catherine lifeboat man Nigel Sweeny was rewarded in the 2014 Queens Birthday Honours, with the MBE.