Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Dunbar Lifeboat Service, a mock rescue demonstrates a taster of how the RNLI deploys itself in rescues.
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In 2008, members of the Edinburgh Cine and Video Society collaborated on a project to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Dunbar Lifeboat Station where we took a collection of cameras and filmed the lifeboat crews practicing training with a variety of inshore rescue situations.
Dunbar Lifeboat Station is situated in the East Lothian town of Dunbar on the South East Coast of Scotland, part of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The station currently has a Trent Class all weather lifeboat and a D class inshore lifeboat. At present, Gary Fairbairn is the coxswain.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution RNLI Lifeguards is a UK wide charity that saves lives at sea all over the British Isle coastlines in addition to inshore. It was originally founded on 4th March, 1824. The RNLI has 444 lifeboats of which 332 are based on stations and a further 112 are in the relief fleet. These boats come from the 235 lifeboat stations around the coasts of Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
The number of rescues RNLI saving lifes have doubled since since 1980. The RNLI's lifeboats managed to successfully rescue on average 21 people a day according to information during 2008. On that very year the RNLI launched 8,293 times and managed to save 7,612 people, an incredible result. Just for the record, a total of 137,000 lives have been saved since 1824 by the RNLI, an amount that clearly shows the importance of the RNLI People volunteers service.
Looking at the service at Dunbar in a timeline, we should start back in 1808 when the first ever United Kingdom RNLI boats were sent to the station. In 1810, 45 men were saved from HMS Pallas by the RNLI rescues after two trips. Unfortunately after a third attempt, the boat toppled over and everyone drowned except a few men. A sad year in 1821 as the RNLI Lifeboat Stations UK was sold and Dunbar Lifeboat Station was closed.
In 1826, Scottish Coastguard Randal Stap was awarded a silver medal and £3 for special thanks for making a difficult journey out on a rescue sea to bring back ashore the wrecked sloop Brothers all on his own. A further medal, this time silver was awarded to James Brown from the Coastguard who rescued at sea the master and one crew member from the schooner, Susan.
More optimistic news arrived in 1864 when a new lifeboat station was established by the Royal National Lifeboat Association and a boathouse was constructed for the cost of £165.00. In 1877, the Dunbar Lifeboat capsized during an exercise where two of the crew died, Clements and Robert Harkis. However, in 1901, the existing lifeboat house was demolished where a new one was built at a cost of £633.00.
The next milestone for the Dunbar Lifeboat Station was in 1905 when a silver medal was awarded to Walter Fairbairn, a Coxswain for the rescue of six from the steamship, King Ja Ja.
In 1907, a second RNLI Charity Lifeboat Station opened at Skateraw, south of Dunbar which at the time was manned by crew from Dunbar. An important historical moment took place in 1909 where the horse drawn launch took place. A Centenary Vellum was awarded in 1930 for the success of the station and service.
By 1931, the Dunbar Lifeboat resided not in the boathouse but afloat at moorings where the old boathouse was used as a gear store and a new Lifeboat crew room. During World War Two, the second RNLI Trent Lifeboat was withdrawn and the station at Skateraw closed.
Near disaster struck in 1953 where a boy falls over the cliffs but thanks for Coxswain, R Brunton, he was rescued. Brunton was awarded a Royal Humane Society's testimonial on parchment. The RNLI Dunbar Rescue Services reached it 150th anniversary by 1958 where it received it's second Vellum.
In 1968, an inshore lifeboat station was established with a RNLI Trent Class Lifeboat. Two years later, a bronze medal was awarded to David Brunton who dived from the boat to rescue at sea an injured man in the water.
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