Second Coxswain Stephen Whittle and Assistant Mechanic John Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, share the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1964. The award is an annual one made under the terms of a will.

Stephen Whittle and John Power volunteered to man the Dunmore East boarding boat to take off the survivors of the Dutch motor vessel Jans Brons, which went aground on rocks in a south-easterly gale on nth March. The survivors were then transferred to the Dunmore East life-boat..