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Lifeboat House
Street:-   Tangier Street
locality:-   Whitehaven
civil parish:-   Whitehaven (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   lifeboat station
coordinates:-   NX974184
1Km square:-   NX9718
10Km square:-   NX91
references:-   Jollie 1811

evidence:-   old directory:- Jollie 1811
placename:-  Lifeboat House
source data:-   Guide book, Jollie's Cumberland Guide and Directory, published by Francis Jollie and Sons, Carlisle, Cumberland, 1811.
"Lifeboat House, Tangier Street"

notes:-  
The third person to be the inventor of 'the lifeboat' was Henry Greathead, shipwright, South Shields, Northumberland. Following a competition sponsored by The Gentlemen of Lawe House, South Shields, he was told to build a purpose built lifeboat including the best features of various entries. The result was the 'Original'. This incorporated two important faetures from the earlier inventors: the extensive use of cork, as in Lionel Lukin's design of an unimmergible, 1785; and a high bow and stern making a shape like an orange segment, from William Wouldhave's self righting design about 1789. More than 30 of these lifeboats were built, one of which was sent to Whitehaven.

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