The National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (as the RNLI was known at the time) awarded medals to three of the people involved in the rescue efforts.

Captain Richard Spencer of the Coastguard fitted two local fishing boats with air-tight boxes and cork fenders from 1825 so that they could be used as lifeboats if the need was to arise again.

[1] The RNLI started to deploy inshore lifeboats (ILBs) around the country in the 1960s to better respond to incidents involving leisure activities on the coast.

He was in an ordinary boat and not wearing the usual safety gear but still dived into freezing water to effect a rescue.

[2] Crew members Robert Jefford and Lionel Harry Fisher received the 'Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum' for rescuing five people from a capsized cabin cruiser on 25 June 1967.