[2] On 28 December 1821, the Sandycove lifeboat was called to the aid of the brig Ellen of Liverpool, driven ashore at Kingstown and wrecked.

Now with no oars, a fourth lifeboatman was lost, as the lifeboat was driven into the breakers, but everyone else, including the crew of the Ellen, managed to scramble ashore.

With his crew of 3 coastguard and 9 fishermen, Lt. William Hutchinson set out through the breaking surf, and rescued five men, three women, and three children from the vessel, moments before it broke up completely.

J. McNeill Boyd, RN, of HMS Ajax, was posthumously awarded the RNLI Silver Medal, after he and his crew of five men, J. Curry, A. Forsyth, J. Johnson, T. Murphy and J. Russell, were washed from the pier and drowned.

[1][9] Second Coxswain Thomas White died of injuries sustained, when the lifeboat capsized on 30 September 1876, having just rescued the crew of the brig Leonie.

On a night exercise on 23 December 1892, the lifeboat was washed onto the rocks, and crewman Patrick Hammond lost his life.

In the storm of 24 December 1895, the Russian barque Palme, on passage from Liverpool to South America, was seeking shelter in Dublin Bay.

Sighting the upturned No.2 lifeboat, they continued to search for survivors for 45 minutes, until oars were lost in the terrible conditions, and the No.

Further attempts to reach the vessel, by the Poolbeg lifeboat Aaron Stark Symes (ON 292), and two tug boats, also failed, and the Palme, for now, was left to her fate.

[2] The following day, the steamship Tearaght managed to reach the vessel, and the Master, his wife and child, 17 crew, and the ship's cat, were saved.

In 1919, a 45-foot Watson-class lifeboat, costing £6,074, with a 60 bhp Tylor D1 6-cylinder petrol-engine, was placed at Kingstown, again taking the name Dunleary (Civil Service No.7) (ON 658).

[1][10] In 1920, the town of Kingstown would revert to its original name, this time taking the Irish form Dún Laoghaire rather than the anglicised "Dunleary".

[4] Acting Second Coxswain W. Kelly was accorded "The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum" in 1947, when, in temporary command of the Dún Laoghaire lifeboat Dunleary II (ON 814), 45 lives were saved from the M.V.

He would also share the Maud Smith Award, for the bravest act of life-saving in 1969, with Coxswain William Sheader of Scarborough.