A big thank you to everyone at Royal Bank of Canada who, last year, having adopted the Guernsey Lifeboat as their charity of the year, raised more than £8000

This year so far (2009), St Peter Port has already had a total of ‘34 shouts’- against a ten year rolling average of 25. Although some of these have been medical cases from Sark, which tends to distort the picture somewhat, a period of eight days in May provided a snapshot of what has become routine for the Guernsey lifeboat.

The new 2010 Lifeboat calendar is on sale now from various places around the harbour and from lifeboat crew members. The calendar is priced at £5 with all proceeds going towards the Ladies Lifeboat Guild and Guernsey's Lifeboat Station

30 Jan 2009 - There are four lifeboat stations in the Channel Islands, which last year housed 6 lifeboats. In 2008 they launched to 103 emergencies (106 in 2007) and rescued 204 people (138 in 2007). The volunteer crews spent 162 hours at sea on emergency call outs alone.

The St. Peter Port lifeboat launched a total of 21 times in 2008, twelve times for pleasure craft, six times for fishing vessels and twice for commercial vessels. It launched three times, but performed no direct service, where the casualty was attended by other responders. The total number of persons on board vessels to which the lifeboat was called and thus ‘at risk’ was 105 and it is heartening to report that no lives were lost in respect of the calls to which our lifeboat responded in 2008.