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"Bon Accord" Aberdeen Lifeboat On Carriage
Bon Accord I
"Bon Accord" Aberdeen Lifeboat On Carriage
"Bon Accord" Aberdeen Lifeboat On Carriage

Bon Accord I

About MeBon Accord I came to Aberdeen in August 1853 and served as a local lifeboat until the 1920s. It was launched off the beach and in 1870 it was provided with a new carriage, whose massive side wheels moved easily across the soft sand. The lifeboat was manned by the Fittie pilots, who saved over three hundred lives in it. its greatest coxswain in the 19th century was Alexander Fordyce Paterson, "Dycie".
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