Final farewell to long-serving lifeboat

New lifeboat follows the old one out of Eyemouth Harbour Credit: ITV Border

Crew members at Eyemouth RNLI bid farewell to their old lifeboat today as it made it's final journey out of the town's harbour.The old vessel has been replaced by a new high-tech lifeboat which arrived last year.The new boat followed the old one out of the harbour as it left to join the relief fleet in Poole.

The old lifeboat served 23 years in Eyemouth and had been involved in more than 400 operations.