Others attending included Provost Daniel Smith; the Magistrates and Town Councillors of Dunbar; Lady Catherine Leslie Wingate, wife of the Sirdar of Egypt; the lifeboat coxswains of Berwick-upon-Tweed, North Berwick and Eyemouth; and a Miss Lawson, a generous friend of Dunbar Lifeboat Station, who agreed to assist in the ceremony.

T. W. G. Sutherland of Innerwick, the boathouse door was formally opened by Miss Lawson, who was then presented with a commemorative silver key on a life-buoy style keyring.

[1] In the early hours of 20 July 1914, the steamship Norway of Christiania, on passage to Grangemouth, was stranded off Skateraw, with a cargo of paper, and 11 passengers.

[3] On 7 July 1915, in gale force conditions, a naval barge ran aground 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Cockburnspath.

[4] By the mid 1930s, there were motor lifeboats at all flanking stations, St Abbs, Eyemouth, Anstruther, and even the crew had their own motor-lifeboat at Dunbar.

One of the first calls on the Skateraw lifeboat was to the Danish vessel Alfred Erlandsen, which had struck Ebbscar Rock off St Abbs on 17 October 1907, on passage to Grangemouth from Latvia with a cargo of Pit props.

The ship had broken her back about an hour before the lifeboat arrived, and all aboard the vessel were lost, except a dog, washed up on the shore the following day.