In the five winter months the Institution has awarded 20 medals for gallantry to English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish life-boatmen. The stations which have won them are Maryport, Southend-on-Sea, Tynemouth, and Walton and Frinton in England; Troon, in Scotland; Barry Dock and The Mumbles in Wales; Newcastle, County Down, (twice) and Ballycotton in Ireland. In the eighteen months of war $7 medals have been awarded for gallantry..