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Model of the first purpose-built lifeboat, the Original
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Model of the first purpose-built lifeboat, the Original
Model of the first purpose-built lifeboat, the Original, built by Henry Francis Greathead of South Shields in 1789.
South ShieldOs private Law House committee endeavoured to find an inventor who could design and build a lifeboat prompted by an earlier tragedy at the mouth of the River Tyne.
They launched a lifeboat design competition and offered a reward of 2 guineas for the best design.
Among the entrants were Parish Clerk William Wouldhave and Boatbuilder Henry Francis Greathead, both from South Shields.
Neither design was an outright winner. Instead the committee took ideas from both to produce a final lifeboat design.
William Wouldhave was offered half the prize money as a reward for his efforts, which he took offence to and rejected.
Henry Greathead was asked to build the lifeboat from the final design and went on to become known as the inventor of the lifeboat.
taken: March 1974
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South Shields
Tyne and Wear
England
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