Until recent years, exploding flares known as maroons had been fired by most lifeboat stations when their lifeboats were called out on service.
Once the initial call-out signal for a lifeboat crew, they were replaced by the radio pager or bleeper as a means of alerting the crew.
They were still used - albeit in a quieter form - as a signal to local shipping and the local community that a lifeboat was launching 'on service', and a back-up to the pager system.
However, they were withdrawn initially on health and safety grounds due to some issues with their use, while latterly there have been problems obtaining them from the manufacturers.
Ian Clayton, Seahouses lifeboat station operations manager, said: "We have been experiencing problems getting the slipway clear so we are looking at alternative warning devices to let people know the boat has been called. We hope they weren't too alarmed by the sirens."
It was just last month that maroons were fired from Seahouses lifeboat station for probably the last time, on Remembrance Day.
The RNLI has recently withdrawn the use of the exploding flares which were fired by most lifeboat stations when their vessels were called out on service.
They generated terrific public interest and support for the RNLI, and the public have complained profusely around the country since they have been withdrawn.
Seahouses lifeboat station has traditionally fired two firework type rockets, similar to RNLI maroons, at 11am on November 11, and again at 2 minutes after 11am, to mark the two minute silence for Remembrance Day.
This year the local authority could not obtain these fireworks, and asked the RNLI if they could fire two RNLI Maroons in their place.
At Seahouses, two maroons which were at the end of their shelf life, were available, and the lifeboat operations manager agreed to have these fired as requested by Berwick Borough Council, particularly as this was the 90th Remembrance ceremony.
For Seahouses, this was probably the very last time the maroons would be fired from the station, marking the end of a lifeboat tradition there.