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Description: | Willie Wouldhave (1751-1821), of South Shields, designed the first true lifeboat. It was built in 1790 by the local boatbuilder Henry Greathead, and named 'Original'. The boat was 30 feet long, and was steered with a long oar at either end. It was lined with cork, which made it almost impossible to capsize. The boat was built by public subscription, and the Duke of Northumberland paid for a lifeboat house at North Shields. This imaginative reconstruction by North East artist Ralph Hedley was painted around 100 years after Wouldhave made his invention. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | artists oil paintings invention and innovation inventors and innovators art made in the North East North East personalities | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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