Mr Greathead's Lifeboats

Osler, A.G.: 1990 UK, softcover, 95 pages, illustrated. Mr Greathead’s Lifeboats by Adrian Osler is a concise, illustrated history of Henry Greathead’s pioneering late-18th-century lifeboat, explaining its design features—such as the curved keel, cork-lined sides, and twin-ended rowing—that made it remarkably stable and effective in heavy seas. Placed in the Tyne and Wear context and issued by the Tyne and Wear Museums Service in 1990, it traces how Greathead’s craft became a model for organized coastal rescue and influenced early European adoption of purpose-built lifeboats. ISBN 9780905974477 0905974476 In good condition