Dunbar Lifeboat Station
| Dunbar Lifeboat Station | |
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Dunbar Lifeboat Station | |
Dunbar, East Lothian | |
| General information | |
| Type | RNLI Lifeboat Station |
| Location | Victoria Harbour, Victoria Place, Dunbar, East Lothian, EH42 1HS, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 56°00′18″N 2°30′54″W / 56.00504°N 2.51499°W |
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| Owner | Royal National Lifeboat Institution |
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| Dunbar RNLI Lifeboat Station | |
Dunbar Lifeboat Station is located at Victoria Harbour in Dunbar, a town and former royal burgh overlooking the mouth of the Firth of Forth, in the county of East Lothian, formerly Haddingtonshire, on the south-east coast of Scotland.
A lifeboat station was first established at Dunbar in 1808, but closed in 1821. The station was re-established in 1864 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
The station currently operates the Trent-class All-weather lifeboat 14-35 John Neville Taylor (ON 1266), on station since 2008, and a D-class (IB1) Inshore lifeboat, David Lauder (D-844), on station since 2019. Due to access issues at Dunbar harbour at low tide, since 1993, the All-weather lifeboat is kept on a mooring approximately 4.2 nautical miles (7.8 km) to the east of Dunbar, in the bay next to Torness nuclear power station.