BOTH Dunbar's lifeboats were launched earlier today after a fishing boat ran aground on rocks near the town's harbour.

Volunteers were paged at 6.10am after the crew of the Pamela S trawler ran into difficulties at Long Craigs.

The net of the 17m boat had picked up a large rock but when the crew moved into shallow water to try to free themselves the net got caught under the hull and the boat ran aground.

UK coastguard requested the D-class inshore lifeboat (ILB) launch at 6.20am.

However once on the scene it became clear they would need the all weather lifeboat to assist them.

As it headed out from its mooring at Torness Power Station a passing Dunbar fishing boat, the May Queen, offered to help and after the ILB crew helped set up a tow the May Queen pulled the Pamela S off the rocks.

The three-man crew of the North Shields-based trawler reported no damage to the boat. They then dropped their net and made their way to Dunbar harbour, where they planned to wait for a diver to help recover their net so they could continue fishing.

By 7.20am the Pamela S was tied up in the harbour and the coastguard stood down both lifeboat crews.