Bronze medals for gallantry have been awarded to two Irish life-boatmen, Coxswain Samuel Nelson of Donaghadee and Second Coxswain Patrick Power, of Dunmore East. Coxswain Nelson won his medal for two services, one on 2151. November and the other on 6th. December, 1940, for going to the help of two steamers which had stranded among rocks, in gales, with very heavy seas running. David Nelson, the motor mechanic and Alexander Nelson, the bowman, brothers of the coxswain, were awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum.

Second Coxswain Power won his medal on 28th, February, 1941. He was at the wheel all the time when the Dunmore East motor life-boat rescued seven lives from a trawler, which had anchored in a gale, dragged her anchors for seven miles, and was within 200 yards of a rocky shore, with the seas breaking right over her, when the life-boat came to her help..