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"coxswain" Definitions
  1. the person who is in charge of a lifeboat and who controls its direction
  2. (also cox) the person who controls the direction of a rowing boat while other people are rowing
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Those who didn't particularly like drinking, or know what a coxswain was.
It's just that the rowers and the coxswain celebrated with the most panache.
The coxswain isn't telling anyone what to do, but they're guiding and steering.
The resume also suggests Olivia could be a very successful coxswain in one of USC's 4 boats.
Since a "cox" is short for coxswain, this could be a bit of a shortened version itself.
"I was a freshman at KU and a coxswain on the rowing team," she says in the video.
Interestingly, she points out her older sister, Isabella, is already on the school's roster as coxswain for boat #4.
Sidoo discussed the possibility that at least one son, Jordan, a coxswain in high school, be recruited to Stanford.
Following his suggestion, they would present the daughter — Isabella Rose Giannulli — as a coxswain, though she had never rowed crew.
No lights were apparent as coxswain Webber maneuvered the small boat aft along the port side of the Pendleton's stern section.
Instead, she walked on the women's crew team in 2005 — and into Mr. Murphy's life during her sophomore year — as a coxswain.
Lopez, who at 5 feet tall is much shorter than the typical rower, is a coxswain and wants to remain one in college.
But the resume the shared says that Loughlin's daughter was a "highly talented" coxswain who had held positions on both men's and women's boats. 
At Jesus College, Cambridge, he studied architecture and was an enthusiastic photographer and rowing coxswain, but he failed his examinations and was expelled in 1951.
Lopez's job as a coxswain is to be a coach on the water and help run practices as a leader who is bold and loud.
He graduated from Eton College and later, while continuing his studies at Chillon College, on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, he was coxswain to a winning racing boat.
However, according to the docs, from 2014 to 2017 ... Olivia earned 2 gold medals, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes as a coxswain for her high school team.
Samantha Scott was an accomplished coxswain for the women's rowing team at Kansas State University, when she started feeling pain and swelling in her throat two weeks ago.
Bernie Webber, played by Chris Pine in the film, was the best coxswain left at Chatham, and was asked to assemble a crew of volunteers to attempt a rescue.
"It's the middle of the boat, so it's pure power and strength," said Stephanie Apstein, who was the coxswain in Ms. Swiggett's boat and served as her maid of honor.
Authorities say one of their daughters tried to pose as a coxswain, the leader in the boat who does not row but steers and calls out commands to motivate teammates.
The affidavit said Giannulli and Loughlin used bribes to facilitate Isabella's admission to USC by having her pose as a recruited crew coxswain, though she had never participated in the sport.
An affidavit claimed Loughlin and Giannulli paid Singer $250,000 fo facilitate their older daughter Bella's admission to USC by having her pose as a recruited crew coxswain, though she had never participated in the sport.
It was pitch-black, and my only navigation was the sound of the oars against the hull, the riggers clicking into place, and the coxswain in front of my face speaking softly into a microphone.
"Thereafter, the Giannullis agreed with [the witness] to use bribes to facilitate her admission to USC as a recruited crew coxswain, even though she did not row competitively or otherwise participate in crew," the complaint alleges.
"Thereafter, the Giannullis agreed with [the witness] to use bribes to facilitate her admission to USC as a recruited crew coxswain, even though she did not row competitively or otherwise participate in crew," the complaint alleges.
They were Boatswain's Mate First Class Bernard C. Webber, coxswain of the anonymously labeled motorized lifeboat CG-219, and his crew, Petty Officer Third Class Andrew Fitzgerald, the engineman, and Seamen Richard Livesey and Ervin Maske.
On Colleges In the 1840s, the most bitter rivalry in American sports might have been between the crew teams from Harvard and Yale, and it boiled over when, for one race, Harvard enlisted a nonstudent to be its coxswain.
A USC alum who was actually a coxswain at the university tells us women's rowing teams often recruit potential teammates who have zero experience in the sport -- which is kinda what Olivia Jade and Isabella were coming to the table with.
After the Dutch rowing pair of Roelof Klein and François Brandt lost a preliminary heat at the 1900 Olympics in Paris, they suspected the reason was that their coxswain was a man, rather than a child, as the French were using.
They did so by claiming the teen was a crew coxswain, even staging a photograph in which she poses with a rowing machine, the documents say, and they later repeated the process for their younger daughter, claiming she was also a rower.
The complaint alleges that Loughlin and her fashion-designer husband had her daughters pose as coxswain for a local crew team and on rowing machines, adding that federal agents obtained emails from Loughlin and her husband allegedly implicating them in the scam.
Sports of The Times RIO DE JANEIRO — Just when the United States women's eight needed it the most on Saturday, when other crews threatened to pull away and win the Olympic gold medal, coxswain Katelin Snyder shouted something special into her headset.
He chronicled the rescue of a grounded freighter by a lifeboat coxswain dressed as Santa Claus and the threatened destruction of a miniature outdoor village called Bekonscot because its houses, "none of them more than a few feet high," were built without permits.
Karsten is one of only two rowing athletes who have competed at seven or more Olympics with Canada's female coxswain Lesley Thompson participating eight times between 1984 and 2016, when she became the oldest rower at the Rio Games at the age of 56.
Olivia Jade knew that her parents had paid for her entrance into USC, sources told Us Weekly, and she didn't think there was "anything wrong" with them using bribes to facilitate her admission, having her pose as a recruited crew coxswain despite never participating in the sport.
According to a complaint filed by federal prosecutors, Olivia Jade's parents styled her as the coxswain of a crew team, staged an action shot of her working an ergometer and paid off a University of Southern California senior associate athletic director to summon an offer of admission.
The résumé, which prosecutors said was created by a former University of Southern California coach, details accomplishments that Ms. Giannulli, the daughter of the actress Lori Loughlin and the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, was said to have achieved as a coxswain, including a series of gold medal wins.
Natalia Cohen, 20163, Laura Penhaul, 22016, Emma Mitchell, 224, and Meg Dyos, 22016, who call themselves the Coxless Crew after their lack of a coxswain member onboard, started their journey in San Francisco, California, on April 20, 2015, and arrived in Cairns, Australia, just before 1:00 GMT on Monday.
" The complaint alleges that the corroborating witness devised a plan to "present their younger daughter, falsely, as a crew coxswain for the L.A. Marina Club team, and requested that the Giannullis's send an 'Action Picture,' asking a few days later for a picture on the 'erg' — or rowing machine, which Giannulli did a few days later.
" The complaint alleged the couple devised a plan to "present their younger daughter, falsely, as a crew coxswain for the L.A. Marina Club team, and [said Singer] requested that the Giannullis's send an 'Action Picture,' asking a few days later for a picture on the 'erg' — or rowing machine, which Giannulli did a few days later.
" The complaint alleges that the corroborating witness devised a plan to "present their younger daughter, falsely, as a crew coxswain for the L.A. Marina Club team, and requested that the Giannullis's send an 'Action Picture,' asking a few days later for a picture on the 'erg' — or rowing machine, which Giannulli did a few days later.
" The complaint alleges that the cooperating witness devised a plan to "present their younger daughter, falsely, as a crew coxswain for the L.A. Marina Club team, and requested that the Giannullis's send an 'Action Picture,' asking a few days later for a picture on the 'erg' — or rowing machine, which Giannulli did a few days later.
Training for boatswain's mate is accomplished through 14 weeks of intensive training at Training Center Yorktown in Yorktown, VA. Once this training is completed, BMs may go on to other advanced training such as Coxswain, Tactical Coxswain, Pursuit Coxswain, Heavy Weather Coxswain, or Surfman.
The quad scull events were introduced at this Olympics, without coxswain for men and with coxswain for women.
Coxswain Insignia Auxiliary Coxswain Insignia worn by USCG Auxiliary Coxswains The Coxswain Insignia ( ) is a qualification device of the United States Coast Guard which is issued to enlisted personnel who qualify as a coxswain. The Coxswain on a Coast Guard Small Boat is in charge of the vessel and all personnel on board. Coxswains, while underway, operate without regard to rank or seniority. A Coxswain in the Coast Guard has a responsibility that is normally only undertaken by officers in other branches of the military.
The quadruple sculls events, as in 1976 and 1980, were held without coxswain for men and with coxswain for women.
A coxswain (far right), 8th and 7th position rowers at the Head of the Charles Regatta Coxswain (right) with Stroke, 7th, 6th, 5th and 4th position rowers, at Summer Eights in Oxford In a rowing crew, the coxswain ( ; or simply the cox or coxie) is the member who sits in the stern (except in bowloaders) facing the bow. The coxswain is responsible for steering the boat and coordinating the power and rhythm of the rowers. In some capacities, the coxswain is responsible for implementing the training regimen or race plan. Most coaches cannot communicate to boat/coxswain, so the coxswain is the "coach" in the boat.
This was a coxswain, second coxswain and 16 oarsmen; a further 8 men tended the sails and two worked the pumps near the stern.
On 27 November 1996, coxswain of the Freddie Cooper, Ian Firman, and the coxswain of the Spirit of Lowestoft, John Cathpole both received RNLI bronze medals for their part in this rescue. Second coxswain Shane Coleman was awarded "the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum".
The Coxswain Insignia and the Surfman Badge may not be worn simultaneously. The United States Navy equivalent of the Coxswain badge is the Small Craft Enlisted Pin. The Coxswain Pin can be awarded Temporarily or Permanently. To be awarded the Coxswain Insignia permanently a member has to have 5 years of certification with at least 2 years on a Standard Boat and retain certification by retaking and passing the appropriate tests.
Sam Bosworth (born 5 April 1994) is a New Zealand coxswain. He is the first male coxswain to have won an international elite rowing event with a female crew.
In the United States Coast Guard and United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, the coxswain is the person in charge of a small boat. The coxswain has the authority to direct all boat and crew activities during the mission and modify planned missions to provide for the safety of the boat and the crew.U.S. Coast Guard Boat Operations and Training (BOAT) Manual Before a person can be assigned to be a coxswain, they have to go through a qualification procedure, be certified and maintain the certification to be a coxswain. Upon certification, they are awarded the Coxswain Badge.
Kendall Brodie (born 21 November 1991 in Sydney) is an Australian national champion and national representative rowing coxswain who won a silver medal at the 2018 World Championships. In 2018 she became the first Australian female coxswain to steer a representative Australian male crew under the FISA gender- neutral coxswain selection policy initiated in 2017.
3, p. 91. All races were over a 1000 metre course. The 1976 event (along with the 1980 and 1984 competitions) featured a coxswain in each boat; later editions dropped the coxswain.
He also has the Cutterman Insignia and the Coxswain Insignia.
Four years later he won the silver medal as coxswain of the Polish boat in the coxed pair competition as well as the bronze medal as coxswain of the Polish boat in the coxed four competition. In 1936 he was the coxswain of the Polish boat which was eliminated in the repechage of the coxed pair event. He also competed as coxswain of the Polish boat in the coxed four event but they were also eliminated in the repechage. Skolimowski was also a painter.
Gaetano Iannuzzi (born 5 March 1972) is an Italian rowing coach and former coxswain who later participated as a coxswain in the paralympic sport, also winning an international medal in the competitions reserved for paralympic athletes.
Rank and Organization: :Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 1827, Baltimore, Md. Accredited To: Maryland. G.O. No.: 17, July 10, 1863. Citation: > Served as coxswain on board the U.S.S. Wabash in the engagement at > Pocataligo, 22 October 1862.
Carly Bilson (born 18 February 1981) is an Australian former rowing coxswain – a national champion and World Champion. She is Australia's first female World Champion coxswain, having steered the 2001 World Championship women's eight to victory.
The booms can present a hazard for the inexperienced coxswain or steersman.
He later became coxswain and was awarded another bronze medal in 1964 for leading the rescue of five people from the trawler Victoire Roger which had caught fire. A search for the sinking MV Union Crystal saw Coxswain/Mechanic H E Pengilly awarded with a silver medal. Another sinking vessel, the Tungufoss, resulted in seven lives being saved and Coxswain/Mechanic Maurice Hutchens receiving a silver medal in 1981. In 1995 Coxswain Terence George was awarded a bronze medal for the rescue of five people from the fishing vessel Julian Paul.
In the Royal Canadian Navy, the appointment of coxswain (or capitaine d'armes in French) is given to the senior non- commissioned officer aboard a ship, the equivalent to a command master chief petty officer in the US Navy. For larger vessels such as a destroyer, frigate or the ships (AOPVs), a coxswain holds the rank of chief petty officer 1st class (CPO1). For submarines, a coxswain holds the rank of chief petty officer 2nd class (CPO2). For , a coxswain usually holds the rank of petty officer 1st class (PO1) or CPO2.
Coxswain Henry Blogg set a course for the deeper waters of Cockle Gat south of Haisbro Sands. The weather was bad with heavy rain mixed with sleet. In the darkness the coxswain was not certain of his position.
At the 1978 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, they became world champions with Olaf Beyer as coxswain. They defended their title at the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, with Georg Spohr as coxswain.
David Palfreyman (born 1945) is an Australian former coxswain, rower and rowing coach. He was a national champion three times as a coxswain and twice as a rower and won a gold medal at the 1962 Commonwealth Games.
He probably started work at the dockyard as Assistant Government Coxswain around the time that Williams was appointed as Coxswain. In 1823 Cadman was appointed as master of the government cutter Mars which was wrecked in 1926. Cadman was removed from his post following the sinking of the Mars and applied for another position in the dockyard. In 1827 when Weiss resigned Cadman was appointed as coxswain.
For his part in the rescue of the crew of the Hopelyn coxswain William Fleming was awarded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Gold medal as was coxswain John Sterry Swan. Fifteen Bronze medals were awarded to other lifeboat crewman.
Second coxswain Shane Coleman was awarded the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
Dale Caterson (born 19 July 1961) is an Australian former national champion, World Champion, Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medal winning rowing coxswain. He is Australia's first World Champion coxswain, having steered the 1986 World Championship men's eight to victory.
A coxswain is the coach in the boat, in addition to following the orders of the team coach, the coxswain is connected to the way the boat feels, what's working, what needs to be changed, and how. A successful coxswain must keep track of the drill, time, pace, words of the coach, feel of the boat, direction of the boat, and safety. During a race, a coxswain is responsible for steering, calling the moves, and responding to the way the other boats are moving. Success depends on the physical and mental strength of the rowers, ability to respond to the environment, and the way in which the coxswain motivates the rowers, not only as individuals but as members of the crew.
Stanisław Kozera (born 27 January 1943 in Trzebnica) is a retired Polish Olympic coxswain.
Gino Sopracordevole (24 September 1904 – 1995) was an Italian rowing coxswain who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Sopracordevole was born in Venice in 1904. In 1924 he won the silver medal as coxswain of the Italian boat in the coxed pair event.
Haywood is now the Deputy Captain of VRA Hawkesbury and coxswain of their rescue boat. He is also currently working as a coxswain in the Australian pearling industry for Brocken Bay Pearls, part of the oldest Australian owned pearling company Pearls of Australia.
Henry Jeremy Hugh Wheare (born 1952) is a retired coxswain who competed for Great Britain.
William Thomas N Reeve (1913-2002) was a male rower (coxswain) who competed for England.
Hugh 'Vaughan' O Thomas (born 12 June 1964) is a male retired British rowing coxswain.
He climbed into the cockboat and sat silently waiting, making the coxswain fiddle around nervously.
James Rook (born 18 November 1997 in Victoria) is an Australian national representative rowing coxswain. He was a medallist at the 2017, 2018 and 2019 World Rowing Championships and a winner of the Remenham Challenge Cup at the 2018 Henley Royal Regatta. He is notable for becoming in 2018 the first Australian male coxswain to steer a representative Australian female crew under the FISA gender-neutral coxswain selection policy change of 2017.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 1837, Sweden Accredited to: Ohio. G.O. No.: 45, December 31, 1864. Read's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > Served as coxswain on board the U.S.S. Kearsarge when she destroyed the > Alabama off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864.
Thoralf Hagen (22 September 1887 – 7 January 1979) was a Norwegian rowing coxswain who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he won the bronze medal as coxswain of the Norwegian boat in the coxed four competition as well as in the eight.
Karl Ludvig Sundholm (20 March 1885 – 11 March 1955) was a Swedish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he was the coxswain of the Swedish boat Vaxholm which was eliminated in the first round of the coxed four competition.
For his outstanding bravery and gallantry during the rescue of the Rose Bank, Coxswain Ian Firman was awarded a Bronze Medal. Deputy second Coxswain Lee Firman, assistant mechanic, Alan Warner, Jason Burns, Adrian Burns, John Andrews and Chris Spooner were also awarded medal certificates.
Under Kennett, the four-with-coxswain heavyweights finished third at the IRA Championship Regatta in 1994.
A women's 4+, a "Four" with coxswain in the stern In rowing, the coxswain sits in either the bow or the stern of the boat (depending on the type of boat) while verbally and physically controlling the boat's steering, speed, timing and fluidity. The primary duty of a coxswain is to ensure the safety of those in the boat. In a race setting, the coxswain is tasked with motivating the crew as well as steering as straight a course as possible to minimize the distance to the finish line. Coxswains are also responsible for knowing proper rowing technique and running drills to improve technique.
The normal crew comprised two watches of five – necessary for extended patrols – and consisted of a Captain and Second Officer, a Coxswain and Second coxswain, two W/T (Wireless Telegraph) Operators, two Engineers and two Air Gunners. The Captain was in overall command of the vessel, and was assisted by the Second Officer in navigating, maintaining height, and regulating gas pressure. The Coxswain was responsible for the rest of the crew, and for the care and maintenance of the ship whilst on the ground. He or the Second Coxswain steered the vessel in flight from a position at the very front of the control car.
Manned constantly since, the current coxswain is Mike Davies, who has served as coxswain since 2004. The current Tyne class lifeboat "Hetty Rampton", in service since 27 April 1987,Porthdinllaen RNLI - The Boat is currently being replaced by a new Tamar class lifeboat "John D Spicer".
The standard crew was five: a pilot, a coxswain, an observer, a radio operator and a mechanic.
She married after the 1977 rowing season. She is the stepmother of the American coxswain Peter Cipollone.
The Coxswain of the Swanage lifeboat, Christopher Haw was accorded the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The coxswain calls the four or five scouts remaining on the ground to attention. No further talking is allowed by anyone except for the coxswain and the two participants in the tower. No communication other than yes and no arm signaling is allowed between the tower and ground. At the go signal, time begins and does not stop until the participant who is being rescued from the tower is on the ground and the coxswain calls the crew to attention again.
Lifeboat Coxswain John Watters was awarded a bronze medal and the efforts of his crew were also recognised.
Coxswain Michael Bowden was awarded a Bronze Medal for his seamanship that afternoon.Leach, Nicholas (2009). pp. 43–44.
His younger brother Uwe is also an Olympic coxswain; he won gold with the coxed four in 1972.
They defended their title at the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, with Georg Spohr as coxswain.
Karla Frister is a retired German coxswain who won four medals at the European championships of 1958–1962.
CPO1s are generally initially addressed as "Chief Petty Officer Bloggins" or "Chief Bloggins", and thereafter as "Chief", although in correspondence the full rank or abbreviation is used before the member's name. The Coxswain of a Royal Canadian Navy ship will be answered as "Coxswain" (e.g. "yes Coxswain" or "no Coxswain") The full appellation "Chief Petty Officer 1st Class" in speech is generally used only when the "first class" distinction must be made, such as to distinguish between members with similar names but differing ranks, or on promotion parades. CPO1s are never addressed as "Sir" or "Ma'am", regardless of the protocol for their Army and Air Force equivalents; in Naval tradition, the titles "Sir" and "Ma'am" are reserved for officers.
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Patrick (born 2 March 1985) is an Australian rowing coxswain – a national champion, world champion and a dual Olympian. From 2005 to 2014 she was the prominent coxswain in Australian women's rowing, steering every Australian representative senior women's eight raced at a premier international regatta in that decade.
For men, the maximum weight is currently 160 lbs. For women, the weight limit is 130 lbs. Rowers must propel the weight of their equipment and coxswain as well as their own weight down the race course. The weight of equipment and coxswain is roughly the same for heavyweights and lightweights.
Jonas Wiesen (born 18 July 1996) is a German coxswain. He has won medals at several World Rowing Championships.
Bridgewater is married to former coxswain Rachel Goudie, and they have two children. They live in Cambridge, New Zealand.
Marc Douez (born 20 September 1981 in Victoria ) is an Australian former national champion and world champion rowing coxswain.
For this exceptional and difficult service the thanks of the Institution on Vellum was accorded to Coxswain Richard Davis.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 1832, Ireland. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 45, December 31, 1864.
Four years later he won his second bronze medal as coxswain of Czechoslovak boat in the men's eight event.
J. Bétout was a French rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Robert Battersby is a Canadian coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Ejnar Tønsager (12 April 1888 – 15 October 1967) was a Norwegian rowing coxswain who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he was the coxswain of the Norwegian boat, which was eliminated in the first round of the coxed eight competition. Four years later he was again the coxswain of the Norwegian boat, which was eliminated in the semi-finals of the coxed four event. In some sources the crew members of this boat are also listed as bronze medalists.
The second coxswain of the Spirit of Lowestoft, Shane Coleman was then put aboard the yacht and helped the remaining people on to the Lowestoft boat. The yacht was then towed to Harwich to complete what had been a long and arduous shout. The Lowestoft lifeboat finally got back to it birth at 11:30pm. On 27 November 1996, coxswain of the Spirit of Lowestoft, John Cathpole and coxswain of the Freddie Cooper, Ian Firman, both received RNLI bronze medals for their part in this rescue.
Nadezhda Petrovna Chernyshova (21 March 1951 – 3 May 2019; Russian: Надежда Петровна Чернышёва) was a coxswain who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 at the Olympics in Montreal she was the coxswain of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the quadruple sculls event.
Rank and Organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 1840, Rhode Island. Accredited To: Rhode Island. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864.
Coxswain Henry "Shrimp" Davies and his lifeboat stood by through the night until the boat's engines were once again working.
Josephine "Jo" Burnand (born 4 April 1962) is an Australian rowing coxswain. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
A coxswain is necessary in the first place because the rowers sit with their backs to the direction of travel.
Nina Grishchenkova () is a retired Russian rowing coxswain who won two European titles in the eights in 1963 and 1965.
Valentina Turkova () is a retired Russian coxswain who won three medals at the European Rowing Championships between 1964 and 1966.
Jan Bauch was a Czechoslovak rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Coxswain tries to shut off the fuel leads and is overcome by smoke and fire. Although Dick tries to save him, Coxswain is killed. Both men are badly burned and Dick is recognized as the survivor by his class ring. When he finally returns to the academy, Dick is greeted enthusiastically by his classmates.
Fritz Bauer (23 June 1906 – 19 September 1992) was a German coxswain who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he coxed the German boat which finished fifth after being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the eight event. Four years later he was again the coxswain of the German boat which was eliminated in the repechage of the eight event. In 1936 he won the gold medal as coxswain of the German boat in the coxed four competition.
This qualification procedure requires a significant amount of practice in boat handling as well as previous experience as a boat crew member. Any Coast Guardsman (enlisted or officer) may become a coxswain upon proper qualification. An advancement to boatswain's mate second class requires that the individual qualify as and maintain certification as a coxswain. A commanding officer or officer in charge of a land based unit with boats has to be certified and stay certified as a coxswain on all boats in the unit or be relieved of command.
For more conventional turns, the coxswain may move the tiller slightly to one side or the other over the course of a few strokes. To minimize disturbance of the boat's stability, the motion of the tiller must be smooth and not sudden. The coxswain may also initiate the turn during the drive phase of the stroke, when the propulsive force of the oar blades in the water helps stabilize the boat. For very small steering adjustments, the coxswain may move the tiller very subtly during the recovery phase of a single stroke.
Cesare Milani (4 January 1905 – 21 June 1956) was an Italian rowing coxswain who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he coxed the Italian boat which was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the coxed pair event. Four years later he won the silver medal as coxswain of the Italian boat in the men's eight competition. In 1936 he won his second silver medal as the coxswain of the Italian boat in the men's eight event.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 23 September 1872, Orland, Ind. Accredited to: Ohio. G.O. No.: 55, 19 July 1901.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 18 July 1870, Finland. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 521, 7 July 1899.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 3 July 1866, Germany. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 521, 7 July 1899.
This time there was a different outcome, with the Moelfre lifeboat under its coxswain, Richard Evans, succeeding in saving the crew.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 17 March 1871, Germany. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 55, 19 July 1901.
Greta Georgieva (; born 19 April 1965) is a Bulgarian rowing coxswain. She competed in two events at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Acer Gary Nethercott (28 November 1977 – 26 January 2013) was a British coxswain, Olympic silver medallist and double Boat Race winner.
Ernesto Flores Filho was a Brazilian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Leading Seaman David Groves, the sea boat coxswain , was later awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for his bravery in the rescue.
Raúl Mazerati (born 17 October 1957) is an Argentine rowing coxswain. He competed in two events at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
John DeStefani Hartigan (February 28, 1940 - June 1, 2020) was an American coxswain who twice competed at Olympic Games. Hartigan was born in 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. He was a coxswain for the University of Pennsylvania, and he graduated from there in 1963. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, he coxed the men's four and they came fifth.
USRowing regulations require that a coxswain in an event for men’s crews shall weigh at least 120 lbs and a coxswain in an event for women’s crews shall weigh at least 110 lbs. It is permissible in certain regattas to have lighter coxswains, but crews are required to sandbag their shells to make up the difference.
Jean-Claude Klein (born 22 June 1944) is a French rower who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics. There, he won a silver medal in the four-oared shell with coxswain. He is Jewish, and was born in Créteil. In 1960 he was the coxswain of the French boat which won the silver medal in the coxed fours event.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: April 2, 1879, Fredericstadt, Germany. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 6, August 15, 1900.
This was to be the last service of Coxswain John Henry 'Sparrow' Hardingham who retired after forty two years in the service.
Enrique Carrillo Barnal (born 15 July 1953) is a Cuban rowing coxswain. He competed in two events at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Peter Reynolds (born 26 August 1937) is a British coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Giuseppe Pira (born 4 January 1932) is an Italian coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Author: Cox, Barry. Published by: Spink & Son Ltd. Work: Page 374 - GILCHRIST Alexander, Coxswain/mechanic, Campbeltown Lifeboat. of Campbeltown, coxswain Ian JohnsonLifeboat Gallantry - RNLI Medals and how they were won. Author: Cox, Barry. Published by: Spink & Son Ltd. Work: Page 371 - JOHNSON Ian Jones, Coxswain/mechanic, Troon Lifeboat. of Troon, crewman Arthur HillLifeboat Gallantry - RNLI Medals and how they were won. Author: Cox, Barry. Published by: Spink & Son Ltd. Work: Page 379 – HILL Arthur Maclean, crewman, Largs Inshore Lifeboat. of Largs were all recipients of the RNLI silver medal and coxswain Mike StoreyLifeboat Gallantry - RNLI Medals and how they were won. Author: Cox, Barry. Published by: Spink & Son Ltd. Work: Page 367 – STOREY, crewman, Humber Lifeboat. of the Humber lifeboat who had an RNLI bronze medal awarded to him.
In total she rescued 2,800 troops from the beaches. For his 'gallantry and determination,' Coxswain Howard Knight was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
Róbert Örlschléger (born 1 October 1956) is a Hungarian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Yves Rebelle (born 5 March 1952) is a French rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Todor Kishev (, born 9 June 1950) is a Bulgarian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Peter Wetzstein (born 12 January 1949) is an Austrian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Stanka Georgieva (born 24 November 1950) is a Bulgarian rowing coxswain. She competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Ursula Jurga is a retired East German coxswain who won one gold and two silver medals at the European championships of 1963–1966.
Liam Williams (born 8 February 1960) is an Irish rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Ventseslav Kanchev (born 9 December 1953) is a Bulgarian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Dino Lucchetta (born 13 March 1968) is an Italian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Yukiyasu Ishikawa (born 9 May 1965) is a Japanese rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Kerstin Peters (born 27 July 1967) is a German rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's eight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Aušra Gudeliūnaitė (born 5 September 1963) is a Lithuanian rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's eight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Lenka Kováčová (born 22 May 1966) is a Czech rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's eight event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Edward Masterson (born October 26, 1937) is an American coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
John Jenkinson (born 6 July 1941) is an Australian coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Armando González (born 8 August 1931) is a Spanish coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Juan López (born 16 October 1934) is a Peruvian coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Timothy Kirk (born 19 May 1945) is a British coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed eight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
He was killed in a training flight accident in 1943, aged 24. Howard Primrose Knight, coxswain of the Ramsgate lifeboat Prudential, and Edward Duke Parker, (nearly always incorrectly stated as Edward DRAKE Parker), coxswain of the Margate lifeboat Lord Southborough (ON 688), were both awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in recognition of their gallantry and determination when ferrying troops from the beaches of Dunkirk during the evacuation of 1940. Margate Coxswain shown as Edward Drake Palmer. The lifeboats had assisted in retrieving at least 2,800 men, by towing eight wherries, during a continuous service lasting 40 hours.
Coxswain Andrew Noble and Acting Second Coxswain Andrew Faquhar drowned. Second, on 9 February 1953, six crew members lost their lives when the lifeboat capsized while escorting fishing vessels to the harbour. On this occasion Coxswain Andrew Ritchie, Mechanic George Duthie, Bowman Charles Tait, Assistant Mechanic James Noble and Crew Members John Crawford and John Buchan all lost their lives - the only survivor was Charles Tait. Lastly, on 21 January 1970 while on service to the Danish fishing vessel Opal, the lifeboat The Duchess of Kent capsized with the loss of five of her crew of six.
Despite the wires holding the craft to a fender, the LCA rolled with the motion of the ship. The coxswain would then call, 'Boat manned,' to the telephone operator at the loading station, who, in turn, reported to the 'LC' Control Room. The coxswain would then warn the troops to mind the pulleys at the ends of falls fore and aft, which could wave freely about when the craft had been set in the water. The task of hooking on and casting off from the ship required skill and seamanship from the coxswain, bowman, and sternsheetsman.
West steered the lifeboat in to the ship's side and held position whilst the crew slid down the rope to safety on the lifeboat. Within ten minutes of the extraction the ship sank below the waves. For their parts in this rescue, both Coxswain West of Sheringham and Coxswain William Cox of Wells were accorded the "Thanks of the Institution on Vellum".
Allen Perry Rosenberg (November 29, 1931 – December 7, 2013) was an American rowing coxswain and coach. As a coxswain he won a gold and a silver medal at the 1955 Pan American Games and a silver at the 1958 European Championships. As a coach he was responsible for more than 24 gold and silver medals at the Olympics and world championships.
Gösta Vilhelm Eriksson (19 July 1900 - 7 April 1970) was a Swedish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Vaxholm. In 1920 he was the coxswain of the Swedish boat which was eliminated in the first round of the coxed four event. His elder brother Axel Eriksson competed in the same boat.
Yuriy Evgenevich Lorentsson (, 2 December 1930 – 2003) was a Russian rowing coxswain. He was the second rower, after Briton Jack Beresford, to compete at five Olympics. In 1960 he was the coxswain of the Soviet boat which was eliminated in the repechage of the eight event. Four years later he finished fifth with the Soviet boat in the eight competition.
Sebastiano Zanetti is an Italian coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen with the lightweight men's eight.
Luigi Velotti is an Italian coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1988 World Rowing Championships in Milan with the lightweight men's eight.
Jan Rasmussen is a Danish coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1984 World Rowing Championships in Montreal with the lightweight men's eight.
John W. Lloyd was a Coxswain in the Union Navy and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.
Frank Neumeister is a German coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham with the lightweight men's eight.
Stroke seat in most cases is responsible for keeping pace for the boat, while the coxswain is responsible for the steering of the boat.
Michael Conway (born 3 March 1953) is a Canadian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Siniša Rutešić (born 17 October 1960) is a Croatian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Michel Riendeau (born 29 January 1955) is a Canadian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
David Webb (born 21 April 1943) is a retired British rowing coxswain who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Holger Hocke (born 8 March 1945) is a German rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Antoine Gambert (born 7 January 1959) is a French rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
However, in current usage, the person in charge of a Coast Guard or Coast Guard Auxiliary small boat is the "coxswain" (pronounced cok-sun).
On Sunday, 1 September 1991, coxswain Benny Read was killed after a flare accidentally exploded in his hand, whilst responding to a false alarm.
Matilda Horn (born 16 August 1992) is a British coxswain. She won a silver medal in the eight at the 2019 European Rowing Championships.
Rank and Organization: Coxswain, United States Navy. Born: June 13, 1859, Hanover, Germany. Entered Service At: Boston, Mass. G.O. No.: 521, July 7, 1899.
Francis's rank and organization are as follows: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 6 April 1868, Massachusetts. Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 55, 19 July 1901.
Frances "Francie" Turner (born 6 April 1992) is a New Zealand coxswain. She competed at the Rio Olympics with the New Zealand women's eight.
Antonín Barák (born 11 July 1956) is a Czech rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Saša Mimić (born 23 November 1961) is a Yugoslav rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Paul Tessier (born 26 August 1961) is a Canadian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Akihiro Koike (; born 1 November 1962) is a Japanese rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Carolyn Trono (born 1 January 1961) is a Canadian rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Zhang Liming (born 27 November 1957) is a Chinese rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Kathrien Plückhahn (born 14 September 1958) is a German rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Kathy Talbot (born 17 August 1961) is a British rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Rudolf Ziegler (born 27 November 1957) is a German rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Christophe Chevrier (born 28 August 1963) is a French rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Andrey Lipsky (born 26 February 1965) is a Soviet rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Roman Ambrožič (born 14 September 1973) is a Slovenian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Ireneusz Omięcki (born 10 September 1958) is a Polish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Jon Fish (born June 22, 1962) is an American rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Dario Varga (born 2 April 1973) is a Croatian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Martin Ruppel (born 5 November 1966) is a German rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Sergey Titov (born 23 July 1965) is a Soviet rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Javier Viñolas (born 11 March 1971) is a Spanish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Martin Honegger (born 20 February 1956) is a Swiss rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Martin Svoboda (born 26 April 1975) is a Czech rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Andrés Seperizza (born 6 November 1975) is an Argentine rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Michael James Moore (born August 21, 1970) is an American rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Grażyna Błąd (born 1 March 1969) is a Polish rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Marcus McElhenney (born July 27, 1981) is an American coxswain. He won a bronze medal in the men's eight at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
William Long (October 3, 1935 - March 19, 2010) was an American coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Thor Egil Olsen (born 15 April 1957) is a Norwegian coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Rodolfo Santillán (born 11 November 1947) is a Mexican rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed eight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Joel Finlay (born 30 December 1945) is a Canadian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed eight event at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
He also received the George Cross and the British Empire Medal and is known as "The Greatest of all Lifeboatmen". The youngest recipient was Frederick Carter (11) who with Frank Perry (16) was awarded a Silver Medal for a rescue at Weymouth in 1890. Other notable lifeboatmen include Henry Freeman of Whitby, coxswain for 22 years, Robert William Hook (1828–1911), coxswain at Lowestoft from 1853 to 1883 and credited with saving over 600 lives plus two dogs and a cat,'Heroic lifeboat beards of past and present', RNLI Magazine - 2 August 2015 Henry "Shrimp" Davies, coxswain of the Cromer Lifeboat with 45 years service and James Haylett, coxswain of Caister- on-Sea. One lifeboat has received an award: for the Daunt lightship rescue in 1936, the RNLB Mary Stanford and her entire crew were decorated (see illustration in history section, above).
Arthur Henry Eastwood (12 July 1905 - 8 November 1934) was a New Zealand jockey and rowing coxswain who competed at the 1930 British Empire Games.
Robert C. "Bob" Jaugstetter (born June 15, 1948 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American former competitive coxswain on U.S. National Crews and U.S. Olympic Crews.
José Rojí Blanco is a Spanish coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1983 World Rowing Championships in Duisburg with the lightweight men's eight.
Massimo Di Deco is an Italian coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1985 World Rowing Championships in Hazewinkel with the lightweight men's eight.
Pedro Olasagasti Arruti is a Spanish coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled with the lightweight men's eight.
Peter Klug-Andersen is a Danish coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1981 World Rowing Championships in Munich with the lightweight men's eight.
Alexey Salamini is an American coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1999 World Rowing Championships in St. Catharines with the lightweight men's eight.
Joshua Fien-Helfman is an American coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 2000 World Rowing Championships in Zagreb with the lightweight men's eight.
Jean-Pierre Huguet-Balent (born 19 March 1955) is a French rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1976, 1980, 1984 and the 1992 Summer Olympics.
The lifeboat's Coxswain James Dumble, was awarded the RNLI's Bronze MedalLifeboat Gallantry RNLI medals and how they were won. Edited by:Barry Cox. Published:Spink, London, 1998.
Fifty six rowers from nine nations competed. Germany replaced their coxswain, maybe the Danish Polyteknisk replaced a rower, but this possible change is not counted.
Valentina Timofeyeva () is a retired Russian coxswain who won five European titles between 1960 and 1964, often competing in two events at the same championships.
Gower remarked very emphatically that a coxswain should be in constant charge of her; for without such an experienced man, she would be almost useless.
In 1944 a Bronze Medal was awarded to Coxswain Joseph Mercer for rescuing 13 men from an anti- submarine boat stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
Silvio Rosabal Bianco (born 31 December 1963) is a Cuban rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
2, pp. 521–22. All races were over a 1000 metre course. This was the last Games that the women's quadruple sculls used a coxswain.
Javier Sabriá Pitarch (born 14 July 1964) is a Spanish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Valerie McClain-Ward (born February 14, 1956) is an American rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Joaquín Sabriá Pitarch (born 22 August 1961) is a Spanish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Mark Jeffrey Zembsch (born February 19, 1959) is an American rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Jeong In-gyo (born 1 July 1966) is a South Korean rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Otto Charlet (22 March 1885 - 7 September 1958) was a German rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
François Elichagaray (born 3 September 1895, date of death unknown) was a French rowing coxswain. He competed in three events at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Megan Robertson is an Australian former rowing coxswain. She was a dual national champion and won a silver medal at the 1984 World Rowing Championships.
Norman Ella (18 June 1910 - 19 January 1987) was an Australian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Karel Čížek (3 February 1892 – 31 August 1948) was a Czechoslovak rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Marcel Wauters (born 26 June 1894, date of death unknown) was a Belgian rowing coxswain. He competed in two events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Arthur James Everett (2 February 1891 - 1983) was a Canadian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
The distress call finally reached Cromer and at 10:15 pm, the Cromer lifeboat Louisa Heartwell was launched. This was to be the first rescue by the Cromer Lifeboat with Henry Blogg as coxswain. Blogg was thirty three years old and had been a member of the lifeboat crew since the age of eighteen. James "Buttons" Harrison had had to retire as coxswain due to ill health.
Following the Mayday being received by the coastguard, the Gorleston Lifeboat Kentwell had been launched. She was only powered by oars and Coxswain Billy Fleming had acquired a tow from the tug George Jewson. The two vessels found conditions at sea difficult with 30 to 40 foot waves. As the lifeboat approached the Hopelyn, coxswain Fleming sent up flares to highlight the ship's position.
In 1947 Henry Davies took over as coxswain of the Cromer life-boat from his uncle, Henry Blogg. Shrimp's first significant mission as coxswain took place in July 1947. The Cromer life-boat Henry Blogg, so named after Shrimp's uncle, was launched into storm to help a leaking French collier Francois Tixier off Sheringham. The lifeboatmen hauled a dozen crewmen to safety with a breeches buoy.
For his courage, seamanship and leadership, Dyer was awarded a bronze medal. On 2 December Arthur Curnow, who had only been appointed coxswain three weeks earlier, took the lifeboat out in the early morning to the trawler Fairway which had broken down. Six people were rescued in a tricky operation in heavy seas. The new coxswain was awarded a bronze medal for this work.
A war canoe holds 15 paddlers including one coxswain, or cox, for steering. War canoe is sometimes referred to as C-15 on regatta schedules, with the 'C' standing for 'canoe'. The paddlers, 7 to a side and slightly offset from one another, kneel on one knee while paddling. The coxswain stands with their calves braced between a yoke on the back of the boat.
Miroslav Koníček (born 18 April 1936) is a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Prague. In 1960 he was the coxswain of the Czechoslovak boat which won the bronze medal in the men's eight. He was also the coxswain of the Czechoslovak boat which was eliminated in the semi-finals of the coxed four competition.
Before the development of the Cox Box by Nielsen-Kellerman, a megaphone strapped to the head of the coxswain was used to make the coxswain easier to hear, and the coxswain used an analog stop watch and rate watch - quite a handful when also trying to steer a 60' long racing shell! The use of a system with multiple speakers also became much more important when racing eight construction switched to sealed bulkhead sections to ensure the boat would remain safely buoyant even when damaged. This is because sound could no longer travel down the hull as was possible with the previous open style of construction.
Coxswain Tom SinclairLifeboat Gallantry – RNLI Medals and how they were won. Author: Cox, Barry. Publisher:Spink & Son Ltd and the RNLI. Work: Page 268, SINCLAIR, Thomas Marshall.
Edward Ringold (1827 - 14 October 1864) was a United States Navy coxswain and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War.
Oldřich Hejdušek (born 1 October 1957) is a Czech rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics.
An Hae-eun (; born 7 May 1963) is a South Korean rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Dario Vidošević (13 April 1968 - 27 May 2020) was a Croatian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Park Seong-nae (; born 31 March 1964) is a South Korean rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Winslow Ogden McCleary (19 May 1886 – 20 December 1973) was a Canadian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Valdemar Henriksson (18 July 1884 - 17 February 1929) was a Finnish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Silva Smedberg (10 July 1891 - 22 August 1967) was a Danish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Ani "Anka" Eftimova-Georgieva (Bulgarian: Ани "Анка" Георгиева; born 18 May 1959 in Varna) is a Bulgarian rowing coxswain who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Marty Rabjohns (born 9 April 1978 in Goulburn) is an Australian former rowing coxswain. He was a four-time Australian national champion and a 2008 Olympian.
Liong Siang Sie (9 October 1892 - 29 May 1953) was a Dutch rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
José Martínez Llobet (1 May 1895 - 20 March 1971) was a Spanish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Antoni Brzozowski (11 December 1901 - 19 August 1957) was a Polish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Massimo Ballestrero (born 1901, date of death unknown) was an Italian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Ian Johnston (18 June 1947 - 4 September 2018) was an Australian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Nenko Dobrev (, born 21 December 1946) is a Bulgarian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Two sailors involved in the earlier attempts to save Lehigh, Coxswain Thomas Irving and Gunner's Mate George W. Leland, also received the medal at the same time.
Rutger Stuffken (born 11 August 1947) is a retired Dutch coxswain. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the eight event and finished in ninth place.
Nilton Silva Alonço (born 27 May 1949) is a Brazilian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics, 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Alain Bouffard (born 24 September 1939) is a French coxswain. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with the men's eight where they came fourth.
Jūratė Narvidaite is a retired Lithuanian rowing coxswain who won a silver and a gold medals in the eights event at the European championships of 1966–1967.
Passing within arquebus shot, Bazán's flagship, leading the way, received heavy gunfire and lost its coxswain. Backed up by nine other galleys, however, he silenced the fort.
Hans Bourquin (16 October 1914 – 1998) was a Swiss rowing coxswain who won the gold medal in the coxed pairs at the 1928 Summer Olympics, aged 13.
Kálmán Vaskó (born 23 November 1874, date of death unknown) was a Hungarian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Josep Balsells Auter (26 July 1905 - 26 August 1987) was a Spanish rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Jesús Rosello Olivera (born 26 September 1946) is a Cuban rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Joseph Michael Dougherty (3 July 1901 – 8 February 1981) was an American rower. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam with the men's coxed pair with Augustus Goetz and Thomas Mack as coxswain where they were eliminated in the round one repechage. At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, he again competed in the coxed pair, this time with Tom Curran and George Loveless as coxswain.
Ryszard Kubiak (born 22 March 1950) is a Polish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, in the 1976 Summer Olympics, and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bydgoszcz. In 1972 he was the coxswain of the Polish boat which finished sixth in the eight event. Four years later he finished sixth as cox of the Polish boat in the 1976 coxed pair competition.
Starting as a mixed eight (4 men, 4 women), with a female coxswain. This was also the first time the Cam saw a female coxswain or a mixed crew, and caused some uproar on the river. In 1968 the crew made its way through the Getting-On race and into the May Bumps. In the 1969 May Bumps Wolfson claimed blades, managing to move up six positions with an over-bump.
Coxswain Cecil Irwin was awarded an RNLI silver medal for his work. In a Force 8 gale on September 1984, the Liberty was dragging her anchor just from the shore when the Lloyds II reached her. The lifeboat's crew managed to get a line secured to the yacht and towed her into the harbour. A bronze medal was awarded to Coxswain David Clemence for his courage, leadership and seamanship.
The rank of cadet boatswain, in some schools, is the second highest rank in the combined cadet force naval section that a cadet can attain, below the rank of coxswain and above the rank of leading hand. It is equivalent to the rank of colour sergeant in the army and the royal marines cadets; it is sometimes an appointment for a senior petty officer to assist a coxswain.
Sherman Rockwell Clark (November 16, 1899 – November 8, 1980) was an American rowing coxswain who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920, he was coxed the American boat from the United States Naval Academy, which won the gold medal in the men's eight. He also won the silver medal as coxswain of the American boat in the coxed four event. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1922.
Renato Petronio (5 February 1891 in Piran, Austrian Empire – 9 April 1976) was an Italian rowing coxswain who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the gold medal as cox of the Italian boat in the coxed four event. Eight years later he was the coxswain of the Italian boat which was eliminated in the repechage of the coxed four competition.
Brian Rowsell was trying to repair the aerial and was knocked into the mast and sustained a head injury. A few minutes later Second Coxswain Jack Phillips was also washed overboard. Coxswain Harold 'Dido' Bradford took the decision to continue to the ship that was in distress. To turn the lifeboat around to search for the missing men would have been extremely difficult and dangerous in that storm.
Igor Aleksandrovich Rudakov (; born 8 October 1934) is a Russian coxswain who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1960, 1964, 1968, and in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in Leningrad. In 1960 he was the coxswain of the Soviet boat that won the silver medal in the coxed pair event. He was also the cox of the Soviet boat that finished fourth in the coxed four competition.
John Deakin (born 4 March 1965) is a British coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1994 World Rowing Championships in Indianapolis with the lightweight men's eight.
Helmut Sassenbach (born 31 January 1959) is a German coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1976 World Rowing Championships in Villach with the lightweight men's eight.
Edmund DelGuercio (born March 9, 1983) is an American coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 2008 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim with the lightweight men's eight.
Top three of each heat (green) qualify to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage. NOTE: the coxswain for each team is listed in the ninth position.
Gyula Lengyel (born 20 September 1931) is a Hungarian coxswain. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with the men's coxed four where they came sixth.
Prosport Dana Druncea retires (in Romanian), by Mirela Bǎsescu, 15 April 2009 She became a coxswain and won medals at the European championships, world championships and Olympic Games.
Thomas Hoban (born September 11, 1872) was a coxswain serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.
Vincenzo Bruno (born 2 July 1933) is an Italian coxswain. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with the men's coxed pair where they came fifth.
Edward V "Terry" O'Hanlon is an Australian former rowing coxswain. He was seven times an Australian national champion who coxed Australian representative crews at two World Rowing Championships.
Marcel Boigegrain was a French coxswain. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with the men's coxed four where they were eliminated in the semi-finals.
Susie Palfreyman (born 11 Feb 1952) is an Australian former rowing coxswain. She was a four-time national champion, a representative at World Championships and a 1980 Olympian.
Henri Camille Préaux (25 November 1911 – 21 February 1992) was a French rowing coxswain who won a silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Top three of each heat (green) advanced to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage. NOTE: The coxswain for each team is listed in the fifth position.
Sarah Banting (born 9 November 1993) is an Australian rowing coxswain. She has won national championships and competed in the women's eight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Emil Jand (born 24 September 1890, date of death unknown) was an Austrian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Harry Barnsley (born 17 March 1905, date of death unknown) was a British rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Kenneth Chan (born 10 Jan 1974) is an Australian representative rowing coxswain. He was an Australian champion and won a bronze medal at the 2000 World Rowing Championships.
A coxed quad scull, with a bow cox A bowloader is a crew shell (a type of boat used in rowing) in which the coxswain lies semi-supine in the bow, as opposed to the normal seated position at the stern. Bowloaders are often seen as coxed fours and also coxed pairs. Although a small number of bowloader eights exist, the larger boat's momentum means that a coxswain lying in the bows could be injured in a collision if the bow collapses. A bowloader is slightly faster than a stern-coxed boat, since the mass of the coxswain in the bow reduces porpoising, and the semi-supine position puts the coxswain's center of mass below the waterline, reducing roll.
Josef Jabor (1898–?) was a Czechoslovak coxswain. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the men's coxed four where they were eliminated in the semi-final.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: January 3, 1876, Brewsters, N.Y. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 55, July 19, 1901. Other Navy award: Second Medal of Honor.
Petty Officer Chris Blake -- ("Swain") -- is the ship's coxswain/medic, and often the softening influence on various situations, and is present throughout the entire series. Played by Matt Holmes.
Katie Foulkes (born 3 October 1976 in Geelong) is an Australian rower who competed as the women's eight coxswain in the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Ernest Krause (July 3, 1866 – unknown) was an American coxswain serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.
Stanley Herbert Michael Callagher (18 April 1927 – 21 April 2011) was a New Zealand rowing coxswain who won a silver medal at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Kaylynn Maree Fry is an Australian former rowing coxswain. She was a nine-time national champion, a representative at World Championships, a 1996 Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medallist.
Miguel Alejandro Madero Irigoyen (born 3 April 1896, date of death unknown) was an Argentine rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Georg Spohr (born 24 January 1951) is a German rowing coxswain who competed for East Germany in the 1976 and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was born in Magdeburg. In 1976 he was the coxswain of the East German boat that won the gold medal in the coxed pair event. Four years later he won his second gold medal when he again coxed the East German boat in the coxed pair competition.
Following the war the Foresters Centenarys first peacetime service was on 9 December 1945 when she went to the assistance of the steamship Lady Sophia. The steamship was six miles north west of Cromer and had engine failure. The lifeboat took the ship in tow until a tug from Great Yarmouth took over. In December 1946 James Edward Dumble retired after 22 years as the coxswain and John Henry 'Sparrow' Hardingham became coxswain.
Cecil Paine, which was now running low on fuel, had to return to her station. Foresters CentenaryNewspaper Article on the Rescue of SS Zor Retrieved 25 February 2013 arrived at the scene to relieve her. By the time the lifeboat arrived it was clear to Coxswain West that the Zor was sinking. A northerly gale was blowing in full force and Coxswain West asked the captain to abandon ship but he refused.
At 3:16pm, with the safety of the crew now of deep concern the message for help was sent to the Cromer lifeboat. The Lifeboat H F Bailey was launched at 3:34pm with the second coxswain Lewis Harrison in command. The lifeboat reached the Meriones at around 6:30 pm and went alongside the Richard Lee Barber and her coxswain Henry Blogg rejoined his boat. Blogg then took the marine superintendent aboard the Meriones.
With this in mind Fleming held his position right through the night. At daybreak Fleming and his crew could still not see or hear any sign of life on the wreck and so coxswain Fleming made the decision to return to shore. Within one hour of the lifeboats return to Gorleston, the coxswain received word from the Caister coastguard that a makeshift flag had been hoisted from the funnel of the Hopelyn.
Helen Arbuthnot (born 17 November 1984) is an Irish professional rowing coxswain and a member of the Ireland Rowing Team. Coxswain for the Paralympic Class LTA (PR3) 4+. Ranked the number 5 in the world between 2010– 2012 [coxed the mixed coxed four team for Ireland in the 2012 Summer Paralympics and is a fully abled person. Arbuthnot became involved with rowing in 2004 and subsequently became cox of the Irish mixed coxed four boat.
Arthur Raoul Andrew Koning (22 September 1944 – 10 July 2015) was a Dutch coxswain. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the eight event and finished in eighth place.
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Graeme Barns is an Australian former rowing coxswain. He was a five time national champion, an Australian national representative and won a silver medal at the 1983 World Rowing Championships.
Gerard Hallie (24 October 1911 – 7 July 2002) was a Dutch coxswain. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the men's coxed four where they came fourth.
Peter Stuart Lindsay (born 10 October 1951) is a New Zealand coxswain. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with the men's coxed four where they came sixth.
The five men, Coxswain John W. Lloyd, Coal Heavers Charles H. Baldwin and Benjamin Lloyd, and Firemen Alexander Crawford and John Laverty, ultimately received the Medal of Honor for their attempt.
Sven Folke Tisell (22 June 1909 – 5 November 1972) was a Swedish rowing coxswain. He competed in the coxed fours at the 1936 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final.
Aage Ulrik Jensen (13 December 1915 – 25 January 1995) was a Danish coxswain. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the men's coxed pair where they came fourth.
Nicholas "Nick" Erickson (July 18, 1870 - June 21, 1931) was a Coxswain serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish–American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery.
Paul Piaget (1905-?) was a Swiss rowing coxswain who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920, he won the bronze medal of the Swiss boat in the coxed pair event.
Patrick John Sweeney (born 12 August 1952) is a retired coxswain for Great Britain's rowing team. Sweeney competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, 1976 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Maria Zemskova-Korotkova (born 7 February 1953) is a Russian rowing coxswain. She won gold medals at World Rowing Championships in the women's coxed quad scull in 1981, 1982, and 1983.
Léonard Nuytens (7 September 1892 – ?) was a Belgian coxswain. He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm with the men's coxed four where they were eliminated in the quarter finals.
Marcel Lepan (14 December 1909 - 10 March 1953) was a French coxswain. He competed in two events at the 1924 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the men's coxed four.
Timothy Webster (born 22 November 1990 in East Melbourne) is an Australian former rowing coxswain. He was a national champion and won a silver medal at the 2013 World Rowing Championships.
Henry Blogg and his dog Monte, (RNLI Henry Blogg Museum) Born the son of Ellen Blogg, he was brought up in the family of James Davies (whose son John became Henry's stepfather after John Davies married Ellen Blogg in 1881), himself coxswain of the Cromer lifeboat. He first went to sea as a lifeboatman in 1894 in the rowing lifeboat Benjamin Bond Cabbell and then served in the Louisa Heartwell as second coxswain under Jimmy 'Buttons' Harrison. When coxswain Harrison retired in 1909 due to ill health, Blogg won the vote to take on the leadership role. Away from lifeboat duties, Blogg was foremost a crab fisherman but Cromer being a popular holiday resort, he also ran a deckchair and beach hut hire business.
In Royal Navy Sections of the Combined Cadet Force, the rank of Cadet Coxswain is the highest that a cadet can achieve, except in the rare occurrence that they are promoted to the rank of Cadet Under Officer. The Rank of Coxswain equates to the rank of Cadet Warrant Officer in the Royal Air Force Sections, and the rank of Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major in the Army Sections. In the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, the position of Coxswain is often appointed to the cadet with the rank of Cadet Chief Petty Officer First Class (C/CPO1). This would be the equivalent of the position of Regimental Sergeant Major in the Royal Canadian Army Cadets held by a Cadet Chief Warrant Officer (C/CWO).
The coxswain is considered the commander of the craft and is ultimately responsible for its operation, regardless of whether a senior- ranking individual is on board. Across from him sits the assistant coxswain, who relays hand signals from other boats and aids the coxswain as required. The remaining passengers (six raiders plus the two coxswains make up a full team) normally lay on and straddle the gunwale, keeping a low silhouette to help avoid detection and leaving room on the deck for weapons, equipment and (if necessary) additional fuel bladders. Because the CRRC offers no protection to its occupants and is itself highly vulnerable to small-arms fire, operations involving it almost always take place at night and depend on the elements of stealth and surprise.
Robert Gaston "Bob" Moch (June 20, 1914 - January 18, 2005) was an American rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born and raised in Montesano, Washington. In the 1936 Olympics, he won the gold medal as coxswain of the American boat in the eights competition. His role as a coxswain for the University of Washington and Olympic crew is explored in the 2013 non-fiction book by author Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat.
Wolfgang Groß (born 30 March 1954) is a German coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne with the men's coxed four, with the rowers Andreas Schulz, Rüdiger Kunze, and twin brothers Ullrich and Walter Dießner. A year later, he came second with the same team at the 1975 World Rowing Championships. The coxed four rowers stayed together for the 1976 Summer Olympics, but Groß was replaced as coxswain by Johannes Thomas.
The lifeboat had been out for three days. For his part in the rescue Coxswain Sinclair received an RNLI Silver Medal. Mechanic Alexander Weir and crew member John Masson were awarded Bronze medals and The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum was accorded to Second Coxswain George A Flett, Second Assistant Mechanic James Cowper, Assistant Mechanic Robert J B Esson, John M Noble and Alexander S Masson, in recognition of their meritorious conduct during this rescue.
James Haylett Snr., who had been the assistant Coxswain for many years and was now 78 years old, remained on watch despite being wet through and having no food. He had two sons, a son-in-law and two grandsons in the boat. The Coxswain, Aaron Haylett, steered towards the stricken vessel but the sea conditions forced the boat back towards the beach and she struck the beach bow first about 50 yards from the launch point.
A coxswain is assigned to a boat by the command authority and can only be relieved by the commanding officer/Officer in Charge, executive officer/Executive Petty Officer, or senior officer present. The coxswain’s authority is independent of rank and/or seniority in relation to any other person on board the boat.How The Coast Guard Gets It Right - TIME Unlike the commanding officer of a cutter or ship, a coxswain does not automatically have command authority.
Terrence Michael "Terry" Paul (born September 14, 1964 in Oakville, Ontario) is a retired rowing coxswain from Canada. He competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988. At his second appearance he was the Coxswain of the team that won the gold medal in the Men's Eights. Terry has gone on to an extensive coach career in the US College system at Cornell, and then internationally with Canada, Switzerland, and then Canada again.
Jerzy Walerian Skolimowski (9 December 1907 – 12 February 1985) was a Polish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, in the 1932 Summer Olympics, and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Łuków and died in London, Great Britain. He is buried at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. In 1928 he was the coxswain of the Polish boat which finished fourth in the eight event after being eliminated in the quarter-finals.
One member of the ground crew ties the whip block tail to the shot line. The coxswain signals the tower, and the tower returns the affirmative signal. The tower then hauls the whip up to them on the shot line, and ties the whip block tail to the mast with a round turn and two half hitches.Personal experience of being a coastguard for thirty two years The tower signals to the coxswain who returns the signal.
The lifeboat then returned to the ship which had now broken in half and saved the remaining 32 crew members. The rescue had taken all night and the lifeboat only left for shore at 9 am in the morning. The James Stevens No.14 had been badly damaged during the rescue. Coxswain William Hammond was awarded a RNLI Silver medal for his part in this rescue, and the second Coxswain John Byford was given a Bronze medal.
Elena Georgescu ( Nedelcu, born 10 April 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian coxswain who has won five Olympic medals in the women's eight event. She competed until 1991 under her maiden name.
Paul Staub was a Swiss coxswain who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics and was the part of the Swiss Team which won a gold medal in 1920 Antwerp in coxed four.
On 20 April, the ship conducted its first gunnery practice, during which one of the ship's gunners, Coxswain John Johnson, was killed in an accident with one of the 5-inch guns.
Stillings was the coxswain of the U.S. men’s four with coxswain that won the silver medal in the men's coxed fours competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with Edward Ives, Thomas Kiefer, Michael Bach, and Gregory Springer. One of the most successful coxswains in University of Washington history, Stillings guided the Huskies to two collegiate National Championships and its first and only Henley Royal Regatta Grand Challenge Cup victory in 1977, where the collegiate team defeated a heavily favored British National team. Along the way to the Olympic Games, the Edmonds, Washington native and Husky Hall of Famer, won five U.S. club national championships and gold as the coxswain of the U.S. men’s eight-oared crew at the 1983 Pan American Games. In a sport dominated by young athletes, Stillings accomplished a successful come- back to international rowing at the age of 48, winning the gold as coxswain of the U.S. men’s eight-oared crew at the 2003 Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic.
Stefan Armbruster (born 26 March 1953) is a German coxswain who represented West Germany. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with the men's coxed four where they came twelfth.
Einer Harry Gregersen (7 July 1901 – 3 September 1970) was a Danish coxswain. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam with the men's eight where they were eliminated in round two.
Claude Lowenstein (26 October 1921 – 22 November 2010) was a French coxswain. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the men's eight where they were eliminated in the semi-final.
Coxswain Blogg received the signal to take off the crew. After on hour the lifeboat had saved 29 members of the Monte Nevoso’s crew along with the Dutch Captain Martin Van der Hidde.
Jacques Van Thillo (born 21 December 1942) is a Belgian coxswain. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with the men's coxed pair where they were eliminated in the semi-final.
The term was also sometimes used aboard merchant ships for the senior petty officer in charge of the helm. The fictional Israel Hands, for example, was the coxswain of Hispaniola in Treasure Island.
Alessandro Bardelli (28 April 1914 – 24 August 2009) was an Italian coxswain. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with the men's eight where they were eliminated in the semi-final.
Alexandre Monteiro Dias Fernandes (born 17 April 1967), also known as Xoxô, is a Brazilian rowing coxswain and rowing coach. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Adrian Maginn (born 1954 in Melbourne) is an Australian former rowing coxswain and rowing coach. He was a five-time national champion and won a bronze medal at the 1978 World Rowing Championships.
Martijntje Quik (born 24 October 1973 in De Bilt) is a former coxswain from the Netherlands. She won a silver medal in the women's eight in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
When Henry Blogg retired in 1947, after 53 years service and at age 71, 11 years past the usual retiring date, the new lifeboat at Cromer was named after him. He had been coxswain for 38 years of his service during which he had launched 387 times and rescued 873 people. Henry Blogg's nephew Henry "Shrimp" Davies took over as coxswain of the Cromer Lifeboat. A museum dedicated to the memory of Henry Blogg – "the greatest of the lifeboatmen" – opened in 2006.
Louis Grenville "Lou" Abell (July 21, 1884 – October 25, 1962) was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which was also the location of his death. In 1900, he was the coxswain of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the men's eight. Four years later, he won his second gold medal as coxswain of the American boat in the eight.
Henry "Shrimp" Thomas Davies BEM (February 19, 1914 – June 25, 2002) was a famous lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England. "Shrimp" Davies, as he was affectionately known, was one of Cromer Lifeboat Station's longest serving coxswains, retiring in February 1976. He had joined the crew of the Cromer life-boat H F Bailey in 1931 and became coxswain in 1947 taking over from Henry Blogg. "Shrimp" was coxswain of Cromer life-boats Henry Blogg and Ruby and Arthur Reed.
Because of this incident, Dorus gained a reputation as a rescuer, which preceded his joining the NZHRM as a volunteer. On the basis of his reputation, he was granted the position of coxswain upon joining the NZHRM without having to prove his qualifications. His rank of coxswain entitled him to immediately command his own boat and crew. Although Dorus joined the NZHRM as a volunteer, he worked so many hours that it precluded him from taking on other paid work.
Dieter Arend (14 August 1914 – ?) was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the gold medal as coxswain of the German boat in the coxed pair competition.
Ervin Kereszthy (5 October 1909 – 15 July 1972), also known as Ervin Krebs, was a Hungarian coxswain. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the men's eight where they came fifth.
Douglas William Bowden (24 Nov 1906 – 20 April 1996) was an Australian rowing coxswain. He was twice a national champion and an Australian representative who won a silver medal at the 1938 Commonwealth Games.
For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Smith's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > For rescuing from drowning William Kent, coxswain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, > off Para, Brazil, 1 October 1878.
Niels Alfred Wamberg (31 July 1920 - 28 May 2016) was a Danish coxswain. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with the men's eight where they were eliminated in the round one repêchage.
Coxswain Morrison was discharged from the Navy March 31, 1863. In September 1864, he enlisted at Troy, New York in the 21st New York Cavalry Regiment and mustered out in May 1865 at Bladensburg, Maryland .
Hecht was born in Los Angeles, California. He received a gold medal in the pair without coxswain (with James Fifer) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Hecht founded Books on Tape, Inc. in 1975.
David England born 25 June 1956 is an Australian former rowing coxswain, coach and rowing administrator. He was an Australian national champion, an Olympian and won a bronze medal at the 1977 World Rowing Championships.
Owe Rune Gustav Lostad (27 June 1922 – 12 October 2013) was a Swedish rowing coxswain. He competed in the coxed pairs, fours and eights at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals.
Mills instructed the First Lieutenant and the Coxswain to order the sailors to the quarterdeck. Each sailor was given a direct order, and when all had refused, they were deemed to be in a state of mutiny. The sailors did not know how to proceed, so continued to sit and wait in the messdecks. The Coxswain returned to collect a list of grievances, and was met by shouts from all sides, some of which had little or no connection to the sailors' original reasonings.
CPO1 Riefesel joined the Navy in 1982 as a signalman. He was promoted to Chief Petty Officer 1st class in February 2005, serving with Maritime Force Atlantic Headquarters as Unit Chief Petty Officer before being appointed as the Coxswain of HMCS Ville de Québec in June 2006. In 2008 he was appointed the Coxswain for Sea Training Atlantic. In July 2009, he was appointed as the Formation Chief Petty Officer for Maritime Forces Atlantic, until he was appointed Chief Petty Officer of the Navy in August 2012.
Herman Adriaan Zaanen (born 15 March 1948) is a retired Dutch coxswain. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the coxed pairs, together with René Kieft and Bernard Luttikhuizen, but failed to reach the final.
Robert Arthur Cummings (19 May 1899 – 26 May 1969) was an Australian rowing coxswain. He was a three-time national champion who represented Australia in the 1924 Summer Olympics in the stern of the men's eight.
Cummings was coxswain in each of those crews and steered the 1920, 1922 and 1923, South Australian eights to victory. In 1921, 1922 and 1923 he was in those crews with his older brother Frank Cummings.
Noel Donaldson (born 16 December 1955) is an Australian former rowing coxswain and has since 1990 been a prominent and successful world-class rowing coach of Victorian state, Australian national and later, New Zealand national crews.
Lily Jacoba van den Broecke (born 8 January 1992) is a British rower who competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics as the coxswain in the mixed coxed four for Great Britain, and won the gold medal.
František Staněk (born 24 April 1944) is a Czech coxswain who represented Czechoslovakia. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with the men's coxed pair where they were eliminated in the round one repêchage.
55m which beat the previous record by some eight and a half hours. However the group did have a strong stream and all the locks were in their favour, and neither did they carry a coxswain.
Michael Toon (born 11 April 1979 in Brisbane) is an Australian rowing coxswain. He is a former Australian national champion, an U23 world champion, an Olympian and a medallist at world championships and the 2004 Olympics.
John Vilhelmsen (also known as Wilhelmsen; born 12 October 1934) is a Danish coxswain. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the men's eight where they were eliminated in the semi-final repêchage.
Domenico Cambieri (born 19 September 1914, date of death unknown) was an Italian coxswain. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London with the men's coxed four where they were eliminated in the semi-final.
John Vilhelm Bjørnstad (9 March 1888 – 3 June 1968) was a Norwegian rowing coxswain who competed for Christiania Roklub. He competed in coxed fours (inriggers) and in coxed eights at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.
Einar Eriksen (3 March 1880 - 15 July 1965) was a Norwegian rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. His brother Bjarne competed at the same Olympics in fencing.
Thomas P. Mack, Jr. (26 November 1913 – 7 October 2002) was an American coxswain. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam with the men's coxed pair where they were eliminated in the round one repechage.
Citation: > In action with the relief expedition of the Allied forces in China, 13, 20, > 21, and 22 June 1900. During this period and in the presence of the enemy, > Coxswain McCloy distinguished himself by meritorious conduct.
Kostyukhina after winning bronze in 2010 Irina Kostyukhina (born 20 October 1981) is a Russian coxswain. She won a bronze medal with the mixed coxed four at the 2010 World Rowing Championships in the adaptive rowing category.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: March 12, 1862, Dennisport, Mass. G.O. No.: 521, July 7, 1899. Citation: > On board the U.S.S. Nashville during the cutting of the cable leading from > Cienfuegos, Cuba, May 11, 1898.
Sigurd Synnestvedt Monssen (10 October 1902 – 7 November 1990) was a Norwegian rowing coxswain and Olympic medalist. He received a bronze medal in men's eight at the 1948 Summer Olympics, as a member of the Norwegian team.
John Gerdell Kennedy (May 19, 1900 – September 1971) was an American coxswain who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the bronze medal as cox of the American boat in the coxed four event.
He represented England and won a gold medal in the coxed four (as the coxswain) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. He was a member of the University College London Boat Club.
André Moccand (born 25 January 1931) is a Swiss rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1948 he was the coxswain of the Swiss boat which won the silver medal in the coxed fours event.
Monica Maria "Monique" Pronk (born 4 August 1958) is a retired Dutch rowing coxswain. She competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics in the coxed fours and quad sculls and finished in fifth and sixth place, respectively.
Herman Johan "Suus" Suselbeek (born 27 November 1943) is a retired rower from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1968 Summer Olympics, alongside Hadriaan van Nes and coxswain Roderick Rijnders.
During the trip, he disguised as a civilian and met Sing through boxing match. After that, Sing was called by King Sanphet VIII and became coxswain or "Phan Thai" in Thai and became very close after that.
Carlheinz Neumann (27 November 1905 – 19 May 1983) was a German rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the gold medal as coxswain of the German boat in the coxed four competition.
Walter Leiser (born 4 May 1931) is a Swiss rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1952 he was the coxswain of the Swiss boat which won the silver medal in the coxed four event.
Aleksandr Viktorovich Lukyanov (, born 19 August 1949) is a Russian coxswain who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics, in the 1980 Summer Olympics, and in the 1988 Summer Olympics and for Russia in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moscow. In 1976 he was the coxswain of the Soviet boat which won the gold medal in the coxed four event. Four years later he won the silver medal as cox of the Soviet boat in the coxed pair competition.
Foresters Centenary arrived on station in Sheringham on 27 June 1936. She had been sailed around the south east coast from Cowes by the Sheringham crew of Coxswain James Dumble, second Coxswain J. Hardingham, and "Old" Bennett Middleton and mechanic Kitchener Pegg. To house this new lifeboat and the carriage required to launch her, the RNLI had to invest in a new boathouse for . This new station was built at the cost of £7,616 and stood at a right angle to the sea due to the tightness of the new site.
Murphy enlisted in the U.S. Navy from New York and served in the battleship as a coxswain during the Spanish–American War. Coxswain Murphy was one of eight volunteer crew members of the collier , which Rear Admiral William T. Sampson ordered sunk to block the entrance of Santiago Harbor, Cuba. On the night of June 2/3, 1898, during the attempt to execute this mission, Merrimacs steering gear was disabled by enemy gunfire, and she sank without obstructing navigation. Her crewmen were rescued by the Spanish and made prisoners-of-war.
The volunteer crews of the RNLI do not expect reward or recognition for their work, but the records include many rescues that have been recognised by letters, certificates and medals from the RNLI management. This list is just some of the most notable. An RNLI silver medal was awarded in 1868 to both Coxswain Nichols and Coastguard Officer S Morrison for rescuing the sole survivor of the Devon. A later coxswain, Henry Nicholas, received a silver medal in 1909 for a meritorious service to the Fairport when it was in trouble.
The coastguard called out the Ruby and Arthur Reed and within seven minutes of the call she was underway. In the meantime Rig stand- by vessels Desirade, Stout Truck and Vulcan Service were attending the yacht and stood by as she drifted in the relentless weather conditions. To save time reaching the yacht coxswain Richard Davies decided to take the Ruby and Arthur Reed across sandbanks. The coxswain reported that the lifeboat had handled well in the broken waters above the banks and 20 to waves had come aboard the lifeboats deck.
The real-size statue of Phan Thai Norasing Phan Thai Norasing () is a legendary figure mentioned in some later editions of the royal chronicles of Ayutthaya. He is described as a coxswain of King Sanphet VIII's royal barge in the Ayutthaya period who was famous for honesty and integrity. Phan Thai Norasing served his duty as the coxswain until around 1704 that the accident was happened during King Sanphet VIII's fishing trip causing damage to the boat. From this, he willingly accepted the consequence according to Thai ancient monarch law which is execution.
Four sailors temporarily assigned to Mount Washington were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during this battle: Coxswain Robert Jordan, Seaman Henry Thielberg, Coxswain Robert B. Wood, and Seaman Samuel Woods. Later in April, she and Stepping Stones were fired on at Norfleet's Point. Towing West End downriver, Mount Washington ran aground but moved off with the next high tide. Four Negroes boarded her a few days later, reporting no sign of Confederates; nevertheless, Mount Washington was fired on moments later, and a severe engagement ensued.
The voids (built-in float chambers under the well deck) would be systematically flooded, allowing the front end of the craft to sink, so a PBR could be floated in or out of the well deck. The pumping mechanism would then be reversed to clear the water out of the voids, restoring the craft to normal floating position. A fourth modification was the Army Version for Vietnam Rivers Logistic with a live aboard cabin and crewed by 6 men consisting of Coxswain, Assist. Coxswain, Engineer and assistant and two deckhands.
In charge of the rescue was Second Coxswain Victor Pitman. He did not have a full crew of trained lifeboatmen and so two fishermen volunteered to make the crew up to strength. Pitman was awarded a Silver Medal and all the crew – both regular volunteers and the fishermen – received recognition for their work that day. A Bronze Medal was awarded to Coxswain/Mechanic Derek Sargent for leading the rescue on 16 October 1987 of the crew of five from the catamaran Sunbeam Chaser during a storm off Portland Bill.
At the same time, he attempts to work as a soda jerk and as a waiter in blackface while trying to keep these jobs a secret from Mary. Eventually the dean asks Ronald why his grades are suffering. After Ronald explains the situation, the dean empathizes with him and orders the rowing coach to make Ronald the coxswain in the upcoming competition. The coach tries to sabotage Ronald by slipping him a sleeping potion so he cannot compete, but the potion is accidentally consumed by the team's other coxswain instead.
Anatoly Fetisov (Russian: Анатолий Фетисов; born 1940) is a Russian coxswain who represented the Soviet Union. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with the men's coxed four where they were eliminated in the semi- final.
James Haylett Snr. became Assistant Coxswain of the Caister lifeboat. His mettle was tested at around midnight on 22 July 1885. The yawl Zephyr was launched to the aid of a stranded schooner on the Lower Barber Sand.
Harold Neil Hewitt (born 2 September 1938) is an Australian rowing coxswain. He was a Victorian state and Australian national champion who competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics where he won a bronze medal in the men's eight.
Kapka Georgieva (later Panayotova, , born 30 September 1951) is a Bulgarian rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was the coxswain of the Bulgarian boat which won the silver medal in the coxed fours event.
Wilhelm Mahlow (born 18 January 1914, date of death unknown) was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the bronze medal as coxswain of the German boat in the coxed eight competition.
For the rescue of the eighteen men from SS Wimbledon on 31 October 1956 Coxswain Henry West was awarded the RNLI's Silver MedalLifeboat Gallantry RNLI medals and how they were won. Edited by:Barry Cox. Published:Spink, London, 1998. Page 319.
It is frequently given when a crew is attempting to pass another boat. ; "Gunnel!" : A command by the coxswain, where the rowers all hit the gunwales (sides) of the boat with their oar handles. Used in set exercises occasionally.
Mircea Roger (born 16 June 1947) is a retired Romanian rowing coxswain. He was the youngest Romanian participant at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he competed in the coxed pairs and coxed fours and placed sixth in the pairs.
Yelena Medvedeva (, born 21 November 1965) is a retired Soviet rowing coxswain who won a silver medal in the eights at the 1991 World Championships. Next year her team finished fourth in this event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Joseph Quick (1877 - April 27, 1969) was a United States Navy coxswain who received the Medal of Honor for rescuing his shipmate, Machinist's Mate Second Class Walenty Wisnieroski, from drowning on April 27, 1902 in port in Yokohama, Japan.
Alfred Van Landeghem was a Belgian coxswain who won silver medals in men's eight at the 1900 Summer Olympics and again in men's eight at the 1908 Summer Olympics as part of the Royal Club Nautique de Gand team.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Place and date: On board the U.S.S. Florida, at Vera Cruz, Mexico, 21 April 1914. Entered service at: New York. Born: 11 December 1885, New York, N.Y. G.O. No.: 101, 15 June 1914.
Gillis Ferdinand Ahlberg (8 November 1892 – 6 November 1930) was a Swedish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He coxed the Swedish boat Göteborgs which was eliminated in the first round of the men's eights tournament.
Giovanni Scher (21 October 1915 in Koper, Austria-Hungary - 1992) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the silver medal as coxswain of the Italian boat in the coxed fours competition.
Carlton Susumi Ogawa (August 29, 1934 - September 23, 2006) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. In 1956 he was the coxswain of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Helmut Noll (27 June 1934 - 27 November 2018) was a German rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1952, he was the coxswain of the German boat which won the silver medal in the coxed pairs event.
During World War I, Deal had two lifeboats, the RNLB Charles DibdinThe Charles Dibdin of 1907-31 saved 443 lives at sea. During the service of R. Roberts as coxswain, the Deal lifeboatmen included F. Roberts, ‘Bonny’ Will Adams, Henry and William Marsh, (the latter a Deal pilot), F Hanner (2nd Coxswain), and Henry Holbourn, nephew of Henry Marsh. It was also one of nineteen lifeboats that took part in the Dunkirk evacuation and the RNLB Frances Forbes Barton; William Stanton was coxswain of the "Frances Forbes Barton"The Frances Forbes Barton was originally, in 1897, the legacy of a Miss Webster to the boatmen of Broadstairs. It is recorded as having remained at that station until 1912, when the Broadstairs RNLI station closed, during which time it had been taken out on 77 launches and saved 115 lives, by far the most effective of the RNLI craft stationed there.
Olha Oleksandrivna Puhovska (, born 1 November 1942) is a Ukrainian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was the coxswain of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the eights event.
Lars-Erik Larsson (born 7 July 1937) is a retired Swedish rowing coxswain. He competed in the coxed pairs at the 1952 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final. Aged 15 he was the youngest Swedish participant at those games.
Mikhail Ivanovich Prudnikov (Russian: Михаил Иванович Прудников; born 1928) is a Russian coxswain who represented the Soviet Union. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the men's coxed pair where they were eliminated in the semi-final repêchage.
He scrambled ashore when the boat was smashed on the rocks. All eight crew members were awarded bronze medals. Since then two more Tommy Cockings, the drowned coxswain's son and grandson, have served as coxswain on the St Ives Lifeboat.
Guido De Felip (21 September 1904 – 21 September 1968) was an Italian rowing coxswain, born in Venice, who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he coxed the Italian boat which won the gold medal in the coxed pair event.
Franz Kröwerath (30 June 1880 – 25 December 1945) was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain of the German boat Ludwigshafener Ruder Verein, which won the bronze medal in the coxed four final B.
Disqualification can occur when water is spilled or if crew other than the coxswain (and sometimes the barrel hitchers) talk. A run under a minute is generally considered good, though times much lower than this have been seen in competition.
News arrived that a helicopter was en route and it was used to rescue the remaining crewman from the ship. The lifeboats then returned to their stations. Coxswain KennettLifeboat Gallantry: RNLI Medals and how they were won. Author: Cox, Barry.
The original Penlee Lifeboat Station, from which Solomon Browne was launched The Coastguard had difficulties contacting the secretary of the nearest lifeboat station, Penlee Lifeboat Station at Mousehole on the west side of the bay. They eventually contacted Coxswain Trevelyan Richards and asked him to put the lifeboat on standby in case the helicopter rescue failed. He summoned the lifeboat's volunteer crew and picked seven men to accompany him in the lifeboat. They were Second Coxswain/Mechanic Stephen Madron, Assistant Mechanic Nigel Brockman, Emergency Mechanic John Blewett, and crewmembers Charlie Greenhaugh, Kevin Smith, Barrie Torrie and Gary Wallis.
William McKnight (May 3, 1842 - November 4, 1914) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the American Civil War. During the Civil War, William McKnight served in the U.S. Navy as a Coxswain. On April 24, 1862, as a gun captain on board , he participated in combat against Confederate ships as the Federal fleet fought its way past the fortifications protecting the approaches to New Orleans, Louisiana. For his conduct during this event, Coxswain McKnight was awarded the Medal of Honor.
By 4:45 pm the H F Bailey was back with the ship but the Captain still refused to leave the ship saying My radio is all right, if I need assistance I will send for you. Once more the lifeboat returned to Great Yarmouth. Coxswain Blogg informed the coastguard of the situation and arranged for his crew to stay at the Mariners’ Refuge and eat their first hot meal for twenty seven hours. By 5:00am on Sunday no further SOS had been heard from the Monte Nevoso and so Coxswain Blogg and his crew put to sea.
Fleming and his crew once again set out for Scroby sands. The Kentwell had got to one hundred yards from the ship when a large wave had thrown the lifeboat back on to the sands. A second attempt was made with the result that the Kentwell was thrown violently against the hull of the Hopelyn causing serious damage to the lifeboat, so much so that coxswain Fleming had to get his boat clear of the wreck and sands and return to shore. In response to this the Lowestoft motor lifeboat Agnes Cross was launched with Coxswain Jack Swan at the Helm.
Rowing at Georgetown has a distinguished history dating back to the founding of the Boat Club in 1876. The team was however suspended from 1909 to 1920 due to lack of interest, and involvement in World War I. Georgetown added a men's lightweight team in 1963, a women's team in 1975, and a women's lightweight team in 1996. The men have won 5 national championships at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, the most recent being the men's varsity lightweight fours with coxswain on June 5, 2016. The first national championship win was in 1991 with the varsity heavyweight fours with coxswain.
Coxswain Henry Blogg had attempted to approach the stricken vessel and a wall of water hit the lifeboat on her port side which washed five of the lifeboat men including Shrimp Davies and coxswain Blogg, overboard into the raging sea. The five men were hauled back on to the lifeboat but the signalman, Edward "Boy Primo" W. Allen after being in the water for 25 minutes fell unconscious and died a short time later. Despite these traumas, H F Bailey was able go on and rescue the crew of 44 from the English Trader, taking them to the safety of Great Yarmouth.
Coxswain West steered the Foresters Centenary alongside the ship and ropes were attached which allowed two more of the crew to be rescued, one of whom had sustained a head injury. Then this rope snapped and again the lifeboat approached and made fast with new ropes and rescued a further two men, before the ropes broke. Three men were rescued on the third attempt before the ropes snapped and the lifeboat was swept away from the stricken ship. Coxswain West was forced to drive the lifeboat onto the submerged deck of the Wimbledon and the lifeboat’s motor mechanic Edward Craske fought to work the engine controls under the small canopy as required by the coxswain even though he was often up to his armpits in water. On Foresters Centenary’s final approach two metres of the lifeboat's port fender were ripped off, but the last three men were finally rescued just before the ship finally sank below the waves.
Lidiya Evgenevna Krylova (, born 12 March 1951) is a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1976 she was the coxswain of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed fours event.
The Commanding Officer of RCSU(A) is Commander Peter Antonew CD. The Executive Officer is Lieutenant-Commander Mark Willis, CD and the Coxswain is Chief Petty Officer First Class Daniel Legault, CD. The Chief Training Officer is Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Jarvis, CD.
Patrick Newman (born August 7, 1963) is a Canadian coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1993 World Rowing Championships in Račice with the lightweight men's eight. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he came fourth with the Canadian men's eight.
She was also capsized, but righted herself and her crew all got back on board. She was driven ashore at Vance's Harbour, Blackrock. The Poolbeg lifeboat, under Coxswain Captain Dalton, was also launched. She found conditions ‘impossible’ and had to turn back.
Luciano Negrini (22 June 1920 - 12 December 2012) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Venice. In 1936 he won the silver medal as coxswain of the Italian boat in the coxed pairs event.
The Belisle family has seven children. A 1931 graduate of Harvard University, as coxswain of the Harvard Crew, he represented the United States at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. His team was eliminated in the second round of the coxed four event.
In the 1981 World Rowing Championships at Oberschleißheim outside Munich, Germany, the New Zealand eight came seventh. The crew changed significantly prior to the 1982 World Rowing Championships at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland, with four of the rowers and the coxswain replaced.
Downing II getting bumped by Fitzwilliam during the May Bumps 2006. The races are run in divisions, each containing 17 crews. The number of crews in each bottom division varies yearly depending on new entrants. Each crew contains 8 rowers and one coxswain.
Laurence Ralph Stoddard (December 22, 1903 – January 26, 1997), also known as Chick Stoddard, was an American rowing coxswain who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924, he coxed the American boat, which won the gold medal in the men's eight.
Allen Jerome Morgan (July 16, 1925 - September 12, 2011) was an American rowing coxswain who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Born in Seattle, Washington, he coxed the American boat that won the gold medal in the coxed four event in 1948.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 11 September 1872, New York, N.Y.. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 521, 7 July 1899. Citation: > On board the U.S.S. Nashville during the operation of cutting the cable > leading from Cienfuegos, Cuba, 11 May 1898.
AAIB 1985, pp. 16–17. David Harris, the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ives, the constituency which contained both Penzance and the Isles of Scilly praised the rescue, singling out Matt Lethbridge, the coxswain of the St Mary's lifeboat for particular commendation.
Andrew Cox (born 10 August 1964) is an Australian former rowing coxswain and former Sydney first grade rugby union head coach. As a cox he was an U23 Australian national champion who steered Australia's senior lightweight eight at the 1987 World Rowing Championships.
Friedrich Wilhelm Brandes (29 June 1877 – 5 October 1959) was a German-born Swedish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He coxed the Swedish boat Göteborgs that was eliminated in the quarter finals of the men's coxed fours, inriggers tournament.
Mr Bridgman's Accomplice, Long Ben's Coxswain 1660-1722, John Dann, FastPrint publishing 2019, King of Pirates: The Swashbuckling life of Henry Every, E.T. Fox, The History Press, 2008 In September 1692 she captured a French ship which was renamed HMS Saudadoes Prize.
Davison's grandfather, Lex Davison, was a four-time winner of the Australian Grand Prix. He is a cousin of V8 Supercar drivers Alex and Will Davison. He also competed as a coxswain as part of Scotch College's championship-winning rowing crew in 2003.
Norris "Norey" James Graham (January 25, 1906 - July 9, 1980) was an American rower, born in Portland, Oregon, who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932, he won the gold medal as coxswain of the American boat in the eights competition.
Jørgen Nagel Frantzen (born 9 May 1935) is a Danish rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Holbæk. In 1952 he was the coxswain of the Danish boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed pairs event.
John Frederick Keeling Hinde (born 3 October 1928) is a British coxswain. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the men's eight where they came fourth, and in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, again in the men's eight.
Giovanni Spinola (born 31 July 1935) is a retired Italian rowing coxswain who had his best achievements in the coxed fours. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a bronze at the 1964 European Championships.
In March 2007 a ceremony was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the rescue. The Cadgwith lifeboat was Minnie Moon. Two silver RNLI gallantry medals were awarded to members of the Cadgwith Lifeboat crew: Edwin Rutter, Coxswain Superintendent and Rev. ‘Harry’ Vyvyan, Honorary Secretary.
Lynn Silliman (born April 24, 1959) is an American rower who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Watsonville, California in 1959. In 1976 she was the coxswain of the American boat that won the bronze medal in the eight event.
Sabine Heß (later Schubert, born 1 October 1958) is a German coxswain who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics. She was born in Dresden. In 1976 she coxed the East German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed four event.
Juris Bērziņš (born 8 March 1954 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he was the coxswain of the Soviet boat that won the silver medal in the coxed fours event.
Colin Gordon Johnstone (14 September 1921 - 10 November 1991) was a New Zealand rowing coxswain who mostly competed in coxed fours. He won a gold medal at the 1950 British Empire Games, and competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics.Colin Johnstone. sports-reference.comColin Johnstone.
Fred then became part of the British eight with coxswain, winning a silver medal at the 1999 World Rowing Championships, and then a gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He retired shortly after. He now lives in Paris, working for Krug Champagne.
Phelan Hill (born 21 July 1979) is a British rowing coxswain. He competed in the Men's eight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal. In 2016, he competed in the Men's eight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning the gold medal.
Cluff served 13 years as an enlisted small-boat, life-saving operator and a combat tour in the Pacific as a World War II assault-boat coxswain before his promotion to warrant officer and assignment as officer-in-charge of Chatham Lifeboat Station in 1950.
Gottlieb Fröhlich (born 13 August 1948) is a Swiss rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Wohlen bei Bern. In 1968 he was the coxswain of the Swiss boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed fours competition.
He was, however, active in his college Boat Club, as a successful coxswain of Churchill's leading women's crew. After leaving Cambridge in 1988 he briefly worked for Westland System Assessment Limited, part of Westland Helicopters, but maintained a keen desire to work in motor sport.
Erickson was born July 18, 1870 in Finland, and after entering the navy he was sent to fight in the Spanish–American War aboard the U.S.S. Marblehead as a Coxswain. He died June 21, 1931 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery Bronx, New York.
Charles David "Charley" Manring (August 18, 1929 - August 7, 1991) was an American competition rower and Olympic champion, and later naval officer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1952 Summer Olympics, as coxswain for the American team.
Coxswain Murphy's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > In connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. Merrimac at the entrance to the > harbor of Santiago de Cuba, 2 June 1898. Despite heavy fire from the Spanish > shore batteries, Murphy displayed extraordinary heroism throughout this > operation.
In 1997 a third coxswain, Jeremy R. Rees, and his crew were awarded another bronze medal for rescuing four people after their motor boat, Dale Princess, was blown onto cliffs on Skomer Island. The rescue was made in gale force winds and stormy seas.
Alberto Radi (10 December 1919 – 13 July 1989) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Trieste. In 1948 he was the coxswain of the Italian boat which won the silver medal in the coxed pair event.
Carl-Ebbe Andersen (19 January 1929 – 14 June 2009) is a Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Roskilde. In 1948 he was the coxswain of the Danish boat which won the gold medal in the coxed pair event.
Ernest Barberolle (16 October 1861 – 5 September 1948) was a French coxswain who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal, along with Gabriel Poix and Maurice Monney-Bouton in the coxed pair in Antwerp. Monney- Bouton was his son-in-law.
Publisher:Spink & son Ltd and the RNLI, 1998. Work: KENNETT David George, Coxswain, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Lifeboat: Page 390/391. was awarded a Bronze medal for his part in the service. Assistant Mechanic Brian Miskin and crewman Joseph Lester were presented with framed letters.
Mogridge was awarded a second silver medal, and bronze medals were given to William Pillar, his deputy, Richard Harris, the mechanic, and Frederick Sanders, the lifeboat's bowman. William Mogridge retired from his position of coxswain in January 1942 and was succeeded by Frederick Sanders.
Albert "Al" Rossi (born June 20, 1931) is an American rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bessemer, Michigan. In 1952 he was the coxswain of the American boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed fours event.
Jürgen Oelke (born 25 November 1940) is a retired German rowing coxswain who had his best achievements in the coxed fours. In this event he won a world title in 1962, a European title in 1963 and a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Thomas Ahrens (born 27 May 1948) is a retired German coxswain who was most successful in the eights. In this event he won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, a world title in 1962, and two European titles in 1963 and 1964.
One of her crew, Coxswain Oliver O'Brien, received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the 1864 capture of a blockade runner. Another member of her crew, Acting Ensign Pierre d'Orléans, was a member of the Orleansist branch of the French royal family.
The decision was also made to transfer some of the 18 man crew. Foresters Centenary transferred eight of the crew to the nearby Blythe, as the coxswain did not wish to risk their lives in subsequent approaches to the stricken ship that she would undoubtedly have to make. Coxswain West also radioed that the lifeboat's fuel supply was running low and the Wells lifeboat Cecil Paine was launched to the Eleanor Brook to collect the seriously ill master and to deliver fuel to the Foresters Centenary. In the meantime a helicopter from RAF Horsham St Faith had landed a doctor aboard the Eleanor Brook to attend to the master.
Before Monitors crew could be completely transferred to Rhode Island, the ironclad sank, taking four officers and 12 enlisted men with her. Rhode Island endeavored to remain as near as possible to the position in which Monitor sank so as to fix the location, some south-southwest of Cape Hatteras and to await daylight to search for a missing small boat. Seven Rhode Island crewman were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the sinking: Ordinary Seaman Luke M. Griswold, Seaman Lewis A. Horton, Landsman John Jones, Captain of the Afterguard Hugh Logan, Seaman George Moore, Coxswain Charles H. Smith, and Coxswain Maurice Wagg.
The preserved in Ballycotton The RNLI lifeboat station was established in 1858 even though medals had been awarded for rescues that took place in 1826 and 1829. The most famous rescue by the Ballycotton lifeboat took place in 1936. A Gold Medal was awarded to Coxswain Patrick Sliney, Silver Medals to Second Coxswain John Lane Walsh and Motor Mechanic Thomas Sliney, and Bronze Medals to Crew Members Michael Coffey Walsh, John Shea Sliney, William Sliney and Thomas Walsh for the service on 11 February when the Daunt Rock lightship broke away from her moorings. The seas were so mountainous that spray was flying over the lantern of the lighthouse high.
Johannes Thomas (born 11 September 1949) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dresden. In 1976 he was the coxswain of the East German boat which won the silver medal in the coxed four event.
Pierre André Brunet (27 February 1908 – 12 May 1979) was a French rowing coxswain who competed in coxed pair. Together with André Giriat and Anselme Brusa he won the national title in 1927 and 1931, the European title in 1931, and an Olympic bronze medal in 1932.
She was born in Berlin. She competed for . At the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, she won a gold medal coxing the women's eight. In 1976 she was the coxswain of the East German boat that won the Olympic gold medal in the eight event.
She was sold at public auction at Mound City, Illinois 29 November 1865. Four of her sailors were awarded the Medal of Honor for their service in the war: Boatswain's Mate Charles Bradley, Boatswain's Mate James Byrnes, Coxswain Timothy Sullivan, and Captain of the Forecastle William Talbott.
Volunteer fire brigades, parish communities and several clubs characterize village cultural life in Zeltingen-Rachtig. In the Zeltingen Rowing Association (Rudergesellschaft Zeltingen), which counts two world champions in lightweight fours without coxswain and an Olympian among its members, there is a very successful and active rowing club.
Marin Gheorghe (born 5 September 1959) is a retired Romanian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a silver medal in eights in 1992. At the world championships he won 12 medals between 1987 and 2001, including four gold medals.Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften.
Marius Pieter Louis Klumperbeek (born 7 August 1938) is a retired Dutch coxswain who competed in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1960 his coxed four team was eliminated in the semi-finals; he won a bronze medal in the same event four years later.
Michael Whittaker (born 12 September 1970) is a New Zealand coxswain. At the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere, Finland, Whittaker won a Silver medal in the coxed four, with Chris White, Andrew Matheson, Murdoch Dryden, and Chris McAsey. Whittaker is self-employed as a mortgage broker.
Their medals were awarded on 2 October 1879. The RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum were also awarded to the Hon JGP Vereker and to Padstow lifeboat Coxswain Samuel Bate, who helped save a boy who had also been thrown overboard in the same incident.
At the 1948 Summer Olympics in England he was the coxswain of the British boat which won the silver medal in the Eights, and at the 1950 Empire Games in New Zealand he won the bronze medal as cox of the English boat in the Eights competition.
That evening, the storm increased. Comet drifted closer to Daunt rock. When she was 60 yards from the rock, as darkness approached, the Coxswain decided the only option was to try to get alongside and for the crew to jump for the lifeboat. He knew the dangers.
Jørgen Ib Olsen (9 November 1929 – 9 November 2009) was a Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Højelse, Køge Municipality. In 1948 he was the coxswain of the Danish boat that won the bronze medal in the coxed four event.
Jürgen Pfeiffer is a German rower who competed for East Germany. Pfeiffer grew up near Gera. He was twice world champion alongside Gert Uebeler in coxed pair. At the 1978 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand, they became world champions with Olaf Beyer as coxswain.
Roderick "Rody" Falesca Renee Trygvae Rijnders (1 March 1941 – 15 January 2018) was a coxswain from the Netherlands. He won the silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1968 Summer Olympics, alongside Hadriaan van Nes and Herman Suselbeek, as well a European bronze in 1965.
Two silver RNLI gallantry medals were awarded to members of the Cadgwith lifeboat crew: Edwin Rutter, Coxswain Superintendent and Rev. ‘Harry’ Vyvyan, Honorary Secretary. Other lifeboat crews involved in the rescue included , Coverack, and Porthleven. The centenary of the rescue was commemorated on 17 March 2007.
John W. Lloyd, coxswain; Charles Baldwin, coal > heaver; Alexander Crawford, second-class fireman; John Laverty, first-class > fireman; Benjamin Lloyd, second-class fireman, went on an expedition to > destroy the ram. > May 28.—At 9 a.m. all the expedition returned but two men, Baldwin and > Crawford.
Albert Smedley (1895 - 25 Nov 1965) was an Australian artilleryman who saw active service in World War I. He was a club level rowing coxswain who steered the AIF #1 eight to victory at the 1919 Henley Peace Regatta and brought the King's Cup to Australia.
Dunbar Lifeboat Station is a lifeboat station located in Dunbar on the South East coast of Scotland, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Dunbar Lifeboat Station currently operates a 'Trent' Class All Weather Lifeboat and a 'D' Class Inshore Lifeboat. The current coxswain is Gary Fairbairn.
Valentina Khokhlova (born 10 February 1949 in Lipetsk, Russia) is a Belarusian rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's coxed four at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the women's eight at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won three World Rowing Championships gold medals in the eight class.
St Mary's Lifeboat has received fifty-six awards for gallantry. The most recent was in 2004 when Bronze Medals were awarded to Coxswain Andrew Howells and Crew Members Mark Bromham and Philip Roberts for the rescue of an injured man from a yacht on 29 October 2003.
Dieter Semetzky (born 3 November 1949) is a German rower who competed for East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Dresden. In 1968 he was the coxswain of the East German boat which won the silver medal in the coxed fours event.
Williams was born September 23, 1872 in Orland, Indiana, and after entering the navy he was sent as an Coxswain to China to fight in the Boxer Rebellion. He died July 4, 1938 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery Norwalk, Ohio. His grave can be found in section 8.
Coxswain Daly was killed 7 December 1941 while serving in USS Downes (DD-375), damaged in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his courageous and daring attempt to rescue a wounded shipmate trapped in a flaming compartment of the ship.
Read was born in Sweden in 1837. On June 19, 1864 he was serving as a Coxswain on the sloop of war when she sank the commerce raider off Cherbourg, France. He was awarded his Medal of Honor for gallantry under fire exhibited while crewing the ship's pivot gun.
Some of the lifeboat crew managed to climb onto the upturned hull. The crew of the Palme then tried to launch their longboat, in the hope of rescuing their rescuers. This longboat was smashed by the waves. The older lifeboat Hannah Pickard, under Coxswain Horner, then went to sea.
Laura Penhaul, Natalia Cohen, Emma Mitchell completed all 3 legs. Isabel Burnham, Lizanne Van Vuuren, and Meg Dyos rowed the first, second and third legs, respectively. They referred to themselves as the "Coxless Crew", a double entendre partly in reference to the absence of a coxswain in their crew.
Annina Ruppel (born 8 October 1980 in Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German rowing coxswain who competed in the women's eight events at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also a part of the women's eight winning team at the 2003 World Rowing Championships.
The Waveney-class lifeboat at Dunmore East lifeboat was kept on a mooring. The steel hull is long and wide, drawing of water. The hull is divided into seven watertight compartments including two survivor compartments and a crew space. The coxswain operates the boat from an open wheelhouse.
On the 28 October 1989 the Margaret Russell Fraser was launched from Yarmouth with Coxswain David Kennett at the helm.For Those In Peril – The Lifeboat Service of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, Station by Station. Author: Leach, Nicholas. Publisher: Silver Link Publishing Ltd, First Issue 1999.
Ae-Ri Noort (born 10 January 1983) is a Dutch rowing coxswain who competes in eights. She won silver medals at the 2015 and 2016 European Championships, placing fourth in 2014, and participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Noort has a degree in biomedical science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Delmont Edward Gullery (23 November 1905 – 13 August 1982) was a New Zealand rowing coxswain. Gullery was born in 1905 in Picton, New Zealand. He represented New Zealand at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 30 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee.
Willi Padge (born 4 October 1943) is a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Mölln. In 1960, he was the coxswain of the West German boat which won the gold medal in the eights event.
Cox boxes are mainly used in eights and fours, where the readouts are used by the coxswain to monitor the performance of the crew and manage the race. This is of particular importance in Head of the River (time trial) races where the crews race line astern and so performance of other crews cannot be easily gauged. It is also critical to assisting the coxswain in sticking to the race plan, which usually involves strategic changes of rating. The amplifier is linked to one or more loudspeakers along the boat making it easier for the crew to hear commands, this is particularly important for the rower in the bow seat as they are often furthest away.
In 1936, Coxswain Frank Blewitt was awarded a bronze medal for rescuing the crew of nine from the SS Taycraig after it ran aground in Mount's Bay during a gale. Coxswain Edwin Madron received a silver medal and Mechanic Johny Drew a bronze medal for another exceptional service in April 1947. They took the W and S out into seas to rescue eight people from which ran aground on the way to the breakers yard after it had been retired at the end of the Second World War. Madron was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, London.
Viktor Mikheyev (Russian: Виктор Михеев; born 19 April 1942) is a Soviet coxswain from Uzbekistan. Mikheyev was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. At the 1965 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg, he won silver with the men's eight. At the 1966 World Rowing Championships in Bled, he won silver with the men's eight.
In terrible conditions the tired, cold crew and their boat got back to Wells between six and seven pm. In what he described as "The worst trip I’ve ever had" coxswain David Cox was awarded an RNLI silver medal.Lifeboat Gallantry RNLI medals and how they were won. Edited by:Barry Cox.
Giuseppe Lamberti (born 12 November 1973) is an Italian coxswain. Lamberti was born in 1973. He won bronze at the 1988 World Rowing Junior Championships in Milan with the junior men's coxed four. He won a gold medal at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled with the lightweight men's eight.
Radio Operator Armstrong was never seen again. Now, many United States Coast Guard boats were on scene. Coxswain Daniel Hey was found, but due to congealed oil, they resorted to extreme measures, namely removing the oil- soaked, weighted clothes. Mr. Hey was one of the eight navy gunners on the ship.
The rescue brought praise for those involved from all around the world. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) awarded medals to some crew members, and Kaiser Wilhelm II gave each coxswain an engraved gold watch and donated £200 to the RNLI. The ship was later salvaged and declared a total loss.
In 1947, he was a coxswain in Eton's traditional "Fourth of June" Daylight Procession of Boats. He then matriculated at the University of Cambridge, where he studied architecture at Jesus College but failed his second-year exams. He coxed the winning Cambridge boat in the 1950 Boat Race.British Rowing Almanack 1950.
Rank and Organization: :Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 1842 Ulster County, N.Y. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 11, 3 April 1863. Citation: > Captain of a gun on board the U.S.S. Varuna during the attacks on Forts > Jackson and St. Philip and in action against the rebel ship , 24 April 1862.
Lesley Allison Thompson-Willie (born September 20, 1959) is a Canadian rowing coxswain and Olympic champion. Between 1984 and 2016, she has competed at eight Olympic Games, a record for a rower, winning medals in five of them including gold in coxed eight at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Henry Blogg received a second bar to his Gold Medal and he was also awarded the British Empire Medal. Jack Davis was awarded the RNLI silver medal, as did coxswain Charles Johnson of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat. Several other members of the Cromer crew were awarded bronze medals.
Edge, however, observes them and to spite Austen, charges Slobodjian with desertion. Austen's 40mm crew is now short four men. Captain Meredith goes ashore for a social visit that night and becomes drunk, vomiting all over himself in the captain's gig. Embarrassed, he blames its crew and orders the coxswain arrested.
The primary sweep oar racing boats are as follows. ;Eight (8+) : A shell with 8 rowers. Always with coxswain because of the size, weight and speed of the boat; bow loader eights exist but are banned from most competitions for safety reasons. ;Four (4-) or (4+) : A shell with 4 rowers.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 1830, New York, N.Y. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Hamilton's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > On board the U.S.S. Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats > and with the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.
This rowing event consisted of seven teams, split into two heats. Each team fielded a boat crewed by eight rowers and a coxswain. Each rower used a single oar, with four oars on each side of the boat. The winner of each heat qualified for the final (or medal) round.
Davis' official Medal of Honor citation reads: > On board the U.S.S. Trenton, Toulon, France, February 1881. Jumping > overboard, Davis rescued Augustus Ohlensen, coxswain, from drowning. Davis left the Navy while still an ordinary seaman. He died at age 48 or 49 and was buried at Hampton National Cemetery in Hampton, Virginia.
David Tinker was born on 14 March 1957, the son of Hugh Tinker, a writer and university professor. He was educated at Mill Hill School, where he served as coxswain in the naval section of the school CCF. After training at Dartmouth (Britannia Royal Naval College), he studied at Birmingham University.
John Stuart Godwin (1904–1973), known as Jack Goodwin and later as Jack Stuart, was a British rowing coxswain and magician. Godwin was born in 1904 in Bromley, Kent. He rowed for Great Britain in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He was affiliated with the Thames Rowing Club in Putney.
One LCA was damaged by a shell that snapped a cable securing the ramp; the craft immediately flooded and all aboard were lost except the coxswain. Although Italian resistance was more determined at Gela, and the beach was mined, the rest of the LCAs delivered their Rangers to their pier objective.
Bertil Edvard Göransson (9 February 1919 – 10 April 2004) was a Swedish rowing coxswain who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the coxed fours and finished fourth in the eights competition. He won two silver medals in these events at the 1955 European Championships.
Kimberley Ann Santiago (born November 23, 1961) is an American Olympic athlete and professional rowing coxswain. Her team finished 5th in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Seoul. In the 1987 World Rowing Championships in Copenhagen, she also placed 5th. At the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow, Santiago's team placed 2nd.
Klaus-Dieter Ludwig, known as Lucky in rowing circles (2 January 1943 – 18 May 2016), was a German coxswain who competed for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1980 Summer Olympics. He had a long rowing career and competed on the international stage for 19 seasons, retiring aged 41.
Stefan Voncken is a German coxswain. Voncken is a member of the Ruderverein (rowing club) Neptun in Konstanz. He won gold with the coxed four at the 1969 European Rowing Championships in Klagenfurt. He won a gold medal at the 1970 World Rowing Championships in St. Catharines with the men's coxed four.
Hopkins was born on March 22, 1902 in Worcester, Massachusetts. His family moved to Newton, Massachusetts when Hopkins was 12. He graduated from Newton High School, Harvard College (class of 1922), and Harvard Law School (class of 1925). He was coxswain on Harvard's crew and was a member of the Union Boat Club.
Hardy, p. 229 There were few rowers, and races between fours (boats with four oarsmen and a coxswain) tended to attract more interest than races between eights.Sharp, p. 25 Students would row to the inn at Sandford-on-Thames, a few miles south of Oxford, and race each other on the way back.
Rowing at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul featured 14 events in total, for men and women, held on the Han River Regatta Course. The women's quadruple sculls event was held without coxswain for the first time at this Olympics (from 1976 through 1984 it was coxed for women and coxless for men).
James Haylett, the coxswain, supported himself on two oars before drifting close by the foremast, on which were his son Aaron, William Knowles and Joseph Haylett. They kept afloat for a time, but the mast kept rolling over in the swell. Aaron moved to his father’s oars but William & Joseph were drowned.
Robert Egerton Swartwout (July 2, 1905 – June 2, 1951) was an American-born author, poet, cartoonist, and coxswain. He was the only son of American architect Egerton Swartwout and British-born Geraldine Davenport Swartwout. He drew from his rowing experience to produce a locked room mystery about The Boat Race and many poems.
After several hours of searching in vain, Blogg decided it was time to return home. They were from Cromer and now the wind and the tide were against the exhausted crew. Coxswain Blogg decided to head for Sea Palling, where the lifeboat could be anchored, and the crew rest until conditions improved.
The first award was to Lieutenant R B Matthews RN in October 1827. Coxswain John Swan was the second recipient, for his actions during the rescue of the crew of the merchant ship , wrecked on North Scroby Sands in October 1922. The lifeboat Michael Stephens took part in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.
Luciano Marion (22 September 1928 – 1993) was an Italian coxswain. Marion was born in 1928 in Koper, which was located in Italy at the time but was assigned to Yugoslavia after World War II. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the men's coxed pair where they came fourth.
Carl Heinrich Goßler (17 April 1885 – 9 September 1914) was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain of the German boat Germania Ruder Club, Hamburg, which won the gold medal in the coxed fours final B. He was killed in action during World War I.
Dietmar Domnick is a retired East German coxswain who won the 1957 European Rowing Championships title in coxed four, together with Lothar Wundratsch, Gerhard Müller, Egon Meyer and Heinz Dathe. The men rowed for ASK Vorwärts Berlin. It was the first time that East Germany had its own team at the European Championships.
Bolesław Drewek (26 November 1903 – 11 November 1972) was a Polish rower of German origin, who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Drewek was born in Schwornigatz, Conitz in 1903. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as coxswain of the Polish boat in the coxed four event. He died in Gdańsk.
Silvijo Petriško (born 20 November 1979 in Zagreb) is a Croatian rower, who won a bronze medal in the eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. He was the coxswain of the team, compromising Igor Francetić, Igor Boraska, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Branimir Vujević, Krešimir Čuljak, Tomislav Smoljanović, and Tihomir Franković.
The shear legs are put in place. The chair is attached to the endless whip and raised to the tower. When everything on the ground is set, the coxswain signals the tower. One member of the tower crew gets in the chair and sits down, clips in, and signals the ground crew.
Nam Sang-ran (born 2 October 1966) is a South Korean rowing coxswain. She competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Nam attended Korea National Sport University. She won a silver medal in women's coxed four at the 1986 Asian Games with a time of 7:50.57.
Whilst in the service of the Government as a coxswain, he lost an eye. Cadman received a conditional pardon from Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1814State Records of New South Wales Petition of John Cadman to Governor Lachlan Macquarie, 1821. and a free pardon in 1821.Colonial Secretary Index, 1788–1825 CADMAN, John.
Coxswain Harold 'Dido' Bradford was awarded the RNLI Bronze Medal for bravery during this rescue. From 1961 the lifeboat was kept afloat in the river near the entrance to Exmouth docks. A boarding boat was kept on a davit that was lowered into the water to ferry the crew out to the lifeboat.
Anneke Venema (born 19 January 1971) is a retired rower from the Netherlands. She won a silver medal in the women's eight with coxswain in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, Venema and Elien Meijer finished 8th in the women's coxless pair.
The LCA's crew of four ratings included a Sternsheetsman, whose action station was at the stern to assist in lowering and raising the boat at the davits of the Landing Ship Infantry (LSI), a Bowman-gunner, whose action station was at the front of the boat to open and close the armoured doors, raise and lower the ramp, and operate the one or two Lewis guns in the armoured gun shelter opposite the steering position, a stoker-mechanic responsible for the engine compartment, and a Coxswain who sat in the armoured steering shelter forward on the starboard side. Though in control of the rudders, the coxswain did not have direct control of the engines and gave instructions to the stoker through voicepipe and telegraph. The craft relayed signals and orders to the other two craft in the group by signal flags in the earlier part of the war, but by 1944 many of the boats had been fitted with two-way radios. The sternsheetsman and bowman were to be available to take over from the coxswain or stoker should they be killed or injured.
He competed in the 'fours with coxswain' race in the Varsity rowing regatta in the North Sea Canal in the spring of 1936. Early that summer he and childhood friend Karel Hardeman competed as a pair, joined by Johan Frans Van Walsem as coxswain. They competed in the Olympic trials meet and placed second, however the team that won the trials turned out to be Germans, so they were selected to represent the Netherlands at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. During that summer while preparing for the Olympics De Jonge and Hardeman both completed their undergraduate work and passed exams. As rowers they were both smallish, 69 and 71 kilograms respectively, and they were using an older Njord club boat.
An electric tramway track extension from Church Street, Hartlepool to Seaton Carew was opened on 28 March 1902 linking Hartlepool and Seaton Carew. Trams travelled on reserved track along parts of Seaton Carew sea front, operating until 25 March 1927 when the line closed, ending tram transport in the Hartlepools. During a northerly gale in the early hours of 31 January 1907 the cargo steamship SS Clavering became stranded near North Gare breakwater in the mouth of the river Tees. During a 31‑hour joint rescue the Seaton Carew and Hartlepool lifeboats removed a total of 39 people from the vessel—the RNLI subsequently awarded Silver Medals to coxswain Shepherd Sotheran and John Franklin, coxswain superintendent of the Seaton Carew Lifeboat.
In the Royal Navy in the days of sail, the coxswain was a petty officer or chief petty officer who commanded the barge of a captain or admiral. Later the coxswain was the senior deck petty officer or chief petty officer aboard a smaller vessel such as a corvette or submarine, who was responsible for the steering and also assumed the duties which would be performed by the chief boatswain's mate and master- at-arms aboard larger vessels. In World War I, the term was also used to refer to a chief petty officer who was in charge of steering airships operated by the Royal Naval Air Service. In World War II pilots of landing craft were referred to as coxswains.
There is no coxswain, but the rudder is controlled by one of the crew, normally with the rudder cable attached to the toe of one of their shoes which can pivot about the ball of the foot, moving the cable left or right. The steersman may row at bow, who has the best vision when looking over their shoulder, or on straighter courses stroke may steer, since they can point the stern of the boat at some landmark at the start of the course. The equivalent boat when it is steered by a coxswain is called a "coxed four". Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly semi-circular in cross-section in order to reduce drag to a minimum.
An inquest jury exonerated Nielson from all blame and recommended that all passenger vessels carry rocket apparatus rather than rely on rockets fired to the ship from shore, and also that a motor lifeboat be stationed at Whitby. The Gold Medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the highest honour the institute could award, was presented to Superintendent Major H. E. Burton and Coxswain Robert Smith of the Tynemouth lifeboat Henry Vernon and to Coxswain Thomas Langlands of the Whitby lifeboat. The Empire Gallantry Medal (subsequently changed to the George Cross) was awarded to Burton and Smith in 1924. In 1917 a monument was erected at Whitby by the British India Steam Navigation Company, commemorating all those who lost their lives in the tragedy.
The men who formed the Kingsdown crew on this occasion were:~ James Pay, (Acting Coxswain), William Sutton, J.Birch, John Bingham, Edward Arnold, A.Sutton, J.Kingsford, T.Bingham, John Arnold, Charles Arnold, W.Laming, James Bingham, and Edward Bingham. The Walmer crew were:~ T.Heard, H.Parker, R.Mercer, J.Mercer, W.Pearson, H.Pearson, B.Pearson, T.Lewis, G.Norris, W.Baily, J.Bullen, T.Bullen, E.Jordan, B.Jordan, and T.Gardener.
He was born in Orange, New South Wales on 9 March 1950. His parents are James Alan Boultbee OAM and Helen Laurine Boultbee. He came from a family interested in sport and he participated in athletics, diving and rowing growing up. At the age of 13 he became involved in rowing as a coxswain.
Brett Hayman (born 3 May 1972 in Melbourne) is an Australian three time world champion, a dual Olympian and an Australian national champion rowing coxswain. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics steering the Australian men's eight. He coxed Australian crews at every premier world rowing regatta from 1993 to 2000.
Barns made his Australian representative debut as coxswain of the 1981 coxed four who contested the Junior World Rowing Championships in Sofia. That four placed fourth.Burns at World Rowing In 1983 he was in the stern of the Australian lightweight eight which won the silver medal at the 1983 World Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Germany.
Jean-Claude Darouy (30 August 1944 - 8 August 2006) was a French rower who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics. In 1964 he was the coxswain of the French boat which won the silver medal in the coxed pairs event. He also coxed the French boat in the coxed four competition when they finished fourth.
Károly Győry (10 February 1910 – 24 December 1944) was a Hungarian rower. Győry competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the coxless pair alongside Tibor Mamusich where they came fourth. They also competed in the coxed pair, with László Molnár as coxswain, but they did not start in their semi-final race.
Tibor Mamusich (19 November 1911 – 22 October 1999) was a Hungarian rower. Mamusich competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the coxless pair alongside Károly Győry where they came fourth. They also competed in the coxed pair, with László Molnár as coxswain, but they did not start in their semi- final race.
Natalya Alekseyevna Zakharova (, born 1945) is a retired Russian coxswain. She who two European titles, in the coxed fours in 1966 and in the quadruple sculls in 1967. Zakharova graduated from the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, and after retiring from competitions worked as an instructor of physical education.
Haylett became Assistant Coxswain of the Caister lifeboat. His mettle was tested at around midnight on 22 July 1885. The yawl Zephyr was launched to the aid of a stranded schooner on the Lower Barber Sand. On a calm and moonlit night the crew of fifteen were on what they felt was a routine call.
All three of these boats were lost in 1966. PCF-41 was lost that same year in an ambush when it was hit by fire from a 57 mm recoilless rifle. Its controls destroyed and coxswain killed, it ran aground at speed. When the crew ran out of ammunition it had to be abandoned.
"Rowing: Men's Four-Oared Shell Without Coxswain". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. pp. 796-7. During the fifth race of the sailing Finn event near Busan, Canada's Lawrence Lemieux was in second place when he noticed Joseph Chan of Singapore in the water from his capsized boat.
Viktor Ljubić, Italianised to Vittorio Gliubich, (18 April 1902 in Zadar - 1984) was a Croatian rowing coxswain who competed for Italy in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Zadar, then in Cisleithania (Austrian Empire). In 1924 he won the bronze medal as cox of the Italian boat in the men's eight competition.
Billy Flemming served on the Gorleston lifeboat through the latter years of the 19th century, and spanning the first four decades of the 20th century. He was in his late 50s when he became coxswain in 1922, a post he held until 1934. Over his 49 years of service he helped to rescue 1,188 people.
The medal was last awarded to five members of the Search and Rescue squadron 7 of the Royal Netherlands Navy, this because they saved the life of the captain and coxswain of an Iranian container ship. Silver medals were awarded on 29 May 2008 by the then Dutch Minister of Defence Eimert van Middelkoop.
Preben Krab (born 15 July 1952) is a Danish rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Gammel Haderslev, Region of Southern Denmark and is the younger brother of Jørn Krab. In 1968 he was the coxswain of the Danish boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed pairs event.
Thomas was born March 17, 1871 in Germany, and after entering the navy in 1895Service Profile he was sent as an Coxswain to China to fight in the Boxer Rebellion. He died July 18, 1900 and is buried in San Francisco National Cemetery San Francisco, California. His grave can be found in section, NA-369.
Thomas Richardson Loudon (born September 1, 1883 – died January 6, 1968) was a Canadian coxswain who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Loudon was born in 1883 in Toronto, Ontario. In 1904, he coxed the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the men's eight. He died in 1968 in his birth city.
Alan Geoffrey Grover (24 September 1944 - 12 May 2019) was an Australian representative rowing coxswain. He was a six-time national champion and triple Olympian who steered Australian crews at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics. Grover coxed at the elite level in Australia over an eighteen-year period from 1962 to 1980.
Mary Rebecca Whipple (born May 10, 1980 in Sacramento, California, United States) is an American coxswain. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics and at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She won a gold medal in women's eight at both competitions. She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she won a silver medal.
Men's coxless pair competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held between August 9 and 16, at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. This rowing event was a sweep event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Two rowers crewed each boat, with no coxswain. The competition consists of multiple rounds.
This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Four rowers crew each boat, and no coxswain is used. As a lightweight rowing event, rowers were limited to a maximum body mass of 72.5 kilograms each and 70 kilograms on average. The competition consisted of multiple rounds.
Work:The Wreck of the Ben Torc – Location. and had managed to get a lifeline across to the trawler at great danger to themselves. The trawlermen were nevertheless not prepared to risk the lifeline and asked that the lifeboat should come to their aid. At 10:27 pm the Emma Constance was launched with Coxswain Tom Sinclair at the helm.
For this action, both he and Davis were awarded the Medal of Honor three and a half years later, on October 18, 1884. Turvelin's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > For jumping overboard from the U.S.S. Trenton, at Toulon, France, February > 1881, and rescuing from drowning Augustus Ohlensen, coxswain. Details of his later life and burial are unknown.
Katelin Guregian ( Snyder; August 16, 1987) is an American woman and national rowing team coxswain. She attended Winter Park High School. She coxed the University of Washington men's eight in college to multiple victories, and has since moved on to the international level. She coxed the US Women's 8+ to a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
László Molnár (29 June 1902 – 28 July 1981) was a Hungarian coxswain. Molnár competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the men's coxed four where they came fifth. He also competed in the coxed pair, with Károly Győry and Tibor Mamusich as team members, but they did not start in their semi-final race.
Jack Carlson (born May 22, 1987) is an American rowing coxswain and author. He represented the United States at three World Championships, and won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France. He is the author of the book Rowing Blazers and founder of the New York City-based menswear brand of the same name.
Hartmut Wenzel (23 February 1947 – 24 August 2020) was a German coxswain. From East Germany, he defected his country during his rowing career in 1971, later winning Olympic bronze for West Germany. Wenzel was born in 1947 in Berlin. He was a rowing cox for TSC Berlin and in 1966, he won his first national coxing the eight.
Brian McMahon (born July 24, 1961) is a Canadian rower, who was the coxswain of the Canadian men's eights team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. The rowing team was inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2003.
Following his retirement the post of Government Coxswain was abolished and the functions were taken over by various other bodies, including the Water Police, Customs and private traders. Cadman died in 1848 and was buried in the Sandhills Cemetery until 1901 when work commenced on Central Station and he and his headstone were relocated to Bunnerong Cemetery at Botany.
The Batavia Coast Maritime Institute (BCMI), a subsidiary of Central Regional TAFE, is a training, research and development facility located at Separation Point in Geraldton. BCMI offers coursework in Aquaculture, Aquaponics, Conservation & Land Management, Coxswain, Master Class V, Horticulture, Environmental Science, Marine Engine Driving Grade 1&2, Laboratory Sciences, Sustainability, Marine VHF Radio, Recreational Skippers Ticket and Restricted Coxswains.
Colasanto attended Bryant University (now located in Smithfield, Rhode Island) and was a decorated veteran of World War II, during which he served as a coxswain in the United States Navy. Around 1954 he intended to work as an accountant for a company in Saudi Arabia; instead, he attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was of Italian descent.
In a sweep boat, each rower has one oar. ;Eight (8+) : A shell with 8 rowers. Along with the single scull, it is traditionally considered to be the blue ribbon event. Always with coxswain because of the size, weight and speed of the boat – bow loader eights exist but are banned from most competitions for safety reasons.
Cornell rowed the Courtney stroke, which was short and choppy compared to the Leander's long and sweeping stroke. The heat was marred by controversy right from the start. Cornell and Leander crew took up their positions at the starting point. When the umpire asked if the crews were ready, F. D. Colson, the Cornell coxswain, answered "yes".
Jacques Vilcoq (born 1942) is a French coxswain. Vilcoq was born in 1942. He competed at the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, with the men's eight where they won the silver medal. The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with the men's eight where they were eliminated in the round one heat.
Franz König (born 1927) is an Austrian coxswain. König competed at the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled with Alfred Sageder and Josef Kloimstein in the coxed pair where they won a bronze medal. They then competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne in the same boat class where they were eliminated in the semi-final.
Daniela Druncea (born 2 November 1990) is a Romanian rowing coxswain and retired artistic gymnast. As a gymnast, she is a world bronze medalist with the team and was an alternate to the 2008 Romanian Olympic team. As a rower, she won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Druncea retired from gymnastics in 2009.
Ryan was born April 6, 1862 in Massachusetts, and after entering the navy he was sent as a Coxswain to China to fight in the Boxer Rebellion. He died June 14, 1927 at the age of 65, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Virginia. His grave can be found in section 17, lot 21008.
Ebright was an only child, born in Chicago, Illinois, to Frank Randall Ebright (1862–1959) and Charlotte M. Bassage Ebright (1866–1959). He attended Broadway High School in Seattle, Washington. While attending college at the University of Washington, Ebright was a coxswain, lettering there in 1916 and 1917. During World War I, he was a flying instructor.
Anatoly Luzgin (, born 28 July 1931) is a retired Soviet coxswain who had his best achievements in the coxed fours, partnering with Vladimir Yevseyev, Anatoly Tkachuk, Boris Kuzmin and Vitaly Kurdchenko. In this event, they won two European titles and a silver medal at the 1966 World Rowing Championships; they finished in fifth place at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Max Ammermann (5 November 1878 – unknown) was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain the German boat Favorite Hammonia, which won the bronze medal in the coxed fours final A. However the IOC medal database credits the bronze medal only to Gustav Moths, who participated only in the semi-final.
Renzo Sambo (17 January 1942 – 10 August 2009)Renzo Sambo's obituary. ilmessaggero.it was an Italian rower who had his best achievements in the coxed pairs, together with Primo Baran and coxswain Bruno Cipolla. They won a European title in 1967 and an Olympic gold in 1968. Sambo then changed to the coxed fours, but with less success.
Kristen Kit (born August 18, 1988) is a Canadian rower, who competes as a coxswain in both women's eights and mixed coxed four rowing events, and who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team in road bicycle racing. In rowing, Kit competes in international level events where she has won six medals in eights and coxed fours.
Peter "Pete" Cipollone (born February 5, 1971) was the coxswain of the 2004 Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men's eight rowing team. He is a native of Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Pete won World Championships in the heavyweight men's eight in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Attended Saint Joseph's Preparatory School in Philadelphia and the University of California, Berkeley.
In US Navy or US Coast Guard service, the craft's crew comprised two gunners and the coxswain.US Navy ONI Though the gunners would normally occupy the two gunner's cockpits, forward, during landing, they had other duties also. One acted as the bowman while the other served as the mechanic. The coxswain was in charge of the boat and crew.
At the transition of captains, both the Men's and Women's captains are given the first flag and oar of Wheaton Crew as a symbol of the passing of power from one generation of Wheaton oarsmen to another. The Golden Cox-Tool was introduced in 2017 as a similar relic for the transitioning of the Head Coxswain.
Daniela Neunast (born 19 September 1966) is a retired German coxswain. She competed in the eights at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics and finished in first, third and eighth place, respectively. She also won one gold, two silver and one bronze medal at the world championships of 1985–1989.Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften Vierer mit Steuerfrau, Achter – Damen.
The rider must be stopped in a controlled manner and removed from the chair. Time stops when the ground crew is called to attention by the coxswain. Judges are responsible for halting progress if they deem a situation unsafe, and for correcting the situation as well as assessing penalties for violations such as talking and crossing the water line.
Balint was on the crew team as a coxswain at Barnard College, and was captain of the crew team at Smith College. Balint remains interested in athletics, and is an avid runner. Balint and her wife, attorney Elizabeth R. Wohl, met in 2000 at Farm & Wilderness. They live in Brattleboro with their two children, a son and a daughter.
Marcel Gaston Charles Frébourg (2 March 1892 – 2 March 1950) was a French coxswain. Frébourg competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens with the men's coxed four where they won silver. In the men's coxed pair (1 km) he won a bronze medal. In the 1 mile event for coxed pairs, he finished outside of the medals.
During the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 8, 1942, Coxswain Ramsden, a member of Lexington's crew throughout his career, remained at his exposed station, despite wounds, continuing to operate a rangefinder in the face of intense enemy strafing and dive-bombing attacks until he died. For his gallant and intrepid conduct, he was posthumously awarded the Silver Star.
Pieta Roberta van Dishoeck (born 13 May 1972 in Hilversum, North Holland) is a retired rower from the Netherlands who won two Olympic medals during her career. She claimed the silver medal in the women's double sculls, alongside Eeke van Nes, and in the women's eight with coxswain in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Petronella Wilhelmina Cornelia Penninx (born 14 September 1971 in Loosdrecht, North Holland) is a retired rower from the Netherlands. She won a silver medal in the women's eight with coxswain in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Four years earlier, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, Penninx finished sixth in the women’s quadruple sculls.
The ship's company is usually divided into various companies or departments, the title varying depending on the extant tradition in that nation's naval service (Navy and/or Coast Guard), which are divided into divisions. In overall command of the ship's company is the commanding officer (CO), assisted by the executive officer (XO) who is the second-in- command of the vessel. The CO's representative with the enlisted crew is called the coxswain in some navies, while in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, the position is known as the command master chief petty officer on surface vessels and the chief of the boat (COB) aboard U.S. Navy submarines. The coxswain / command master chief / chief of the boat is the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer serving on the ship.
Richard Dixon was the coxswain of a 44-foot Motor Lifeboat, on the July 4th weekend of 1980, when his skill and daring enabled him to rescue stricken pleasure boat crew off Tillamook Bay, Oregon. During the first incident a 58-foot yacht was in distress in the aftermath of hurricane Celia, and needed to seek sheltered waters, but wave conditions seemed likely to batter it apart if it tried to use the narrow entrance between two stone jetties to enter Tillamook Bay's harbor. Dixon and the coxswain of another motor lifeboat maneuvered beside the yacht, to absorb some of the wave energy as it entered harbor. In the second incident two pleasure boat occupants had fallen overboard and were within fifty feet of being dashed upon the harbor's breakwater.
Joel Grunnill served as a volunteer crew member on the Skegness lifeboat and at the time of his retirement from the crew in 1984 he had served 45 years, including 33 years as 2nd Coxswain. Following his retirement he served as Station Honorary Secretary, and Station Chairman. The lifeboat is named after him and his cousin April who was also a keen volunteer.
Maurice Crow (20 May 1925 – 17 November 2011) was a New Zealand weightlifter, who represented his country at the 1948 Olympic Games in London in the bantamweight (under 56 kg) division. He finished eighth, out of a field of 19 competitors. He was also a member of the Clifton Rowing Club in Waitara, winning three national titles as a coxswain in the 1930s.
For their actions the airship's first officer, who had been in command, Lieutenant Ralph Booth was awarded the Air Force Cross, the coxswain, Flight-Sergeant "Sky" Hunt, was awarded the Air Force Medal, four other crew members were awarded the British Empire Medal and the other crew members were presented with inscribed watches.R.33 Awards Flight 21 May 1925. p.
Men's coxless four competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held between August 9 and 16, at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Four rowers crew each boat, and no coxswain is used. The competition consists of multiple rounds.
Women's coxless pair competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held between August 9 and 16 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each boat rower has one oar and rows on only one side. The crew consists of two rowers, with no coxswain used. The competition consists of multiple rounds.
The club who retrieved the chicken was predicted to the Varsity. Often the coxswain would be thrown into the air to catch the chicken. However, in the mid-2000s Njord decided to stop hosting this event after numerous broken bones and general damage to Njord's boathouse. The Varsity moved north along the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal for a final time in 1971.
Poulus Johannes "Poul" de Haan (born 5 October 1947) is a retired Dutch coxswain. Together with Hadriaan van Nes and Jan van de Graaff he won the world title in 1966 in the coxed pair event and placed fourth in 1967.Poul de Haan. worldrowing.com Since 1965 de Haan lives in Delft, where he received a degree in civil engineering (specialization environmental engineering).
According to standard procedure the gunner began to point the barrel toward the water to wait out a hangfire. However, the round cooked off halfway down. The round hit the Missouri on the signal bridge, killing Coxswain Robert Fountain and starting a fire involving an acetylene tank which was lashed to the railing. One or two officers' cabins were destroyed as well.
Jean Van Silfhout (1899 – year of death unknown) was a Belgian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp with the men's coxed four where they were eliminated in round one. At the 1924 Olympics, he competed in the coxed four and the eight events; in both regattas, the teams were eliminated in the round one repêchage.
In 1909 station crew rescued the complement of the coastal steamer Argo. Over the July 4th weekend of 1980 Richard Dixon, the coxswain of a 44-foot Motor Lifeboat from the station was awarded the unusual honor of two Coast Guard Medals, for leading two daring rescues. The station was entered onto the National Register of Historic Places in 1993..
Rogers was born in Llangollen, Wales, joined the Royal Navy at the age of 18 and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for the "coolness and leadership" he showed while serving as coxswain of Motor Torpedo Boat 698 in action in May 1944. 'Buck' emigrated to Australia after the war and joined the Royal Australian Navy, serving in the Korean War.
This is a list of the Oxford University crews who have competed in The Boat Race since its inception in 1829. A coxswain or oarsman earns their rowing Blue by rowing in the Boat Race. Rowers are listed left to right in boat position from bow to stroke. The number following the rower indicates the rower's weight in stones and pounds.
Lutz Benter (born 20 December 1945) is a German coxswain who represented West Germany. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with the men's coxed pair where they came sixth. At the 1969 European Rowing Championships in Klagenfurt, he won bronze with the men's eight. At the 1971 European Rowing Championships in Copenhagen, he came sixth with the men's eight.
This rowing event was a sweep event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Two rowers crewed each boat, with no coxswain. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking.
Rolf Spring (born 19 March 1917) is a Swiss rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he was the coxswain of the Swiss boat which won the silver medal in the coxed four event. He also coxed the Swiss boat in the coxed pair competition when they finished fifth and in the eight event when they finished sixth.
The Foresters Centenary left the station on 2 July 1961. With Coxswain Henry West at the helm she was sailed around the east coast down to Oulton Broad. Here she was taken out of the water and was sold for £830 to a Mr R C W Baker of Wells next the Sea. From then on she was used around the Essex coast.
Before attending to the Gallois the lifeboat took 16 men to safety from the SS Oxshott. Coxswain Blogg then took the H F Bailey alongside the Gallois. The steamer was still just above water and her engines were still running. Blogg held the lifeboat alongside the ship, head to the wind, while some of the crew jumped aboard and others slid down ropes.
The coxswain either sits in the stern or lies in the bow of the boat, and faces in the direction of travel. ; Engine room : The middle rowers in the boat. In an 8-person shell, these are generally seats 6, 5, 4 and 3. They are generally the biggest and strongest rowers, who provide most of the power to the boat.
The exhausted first mate and the second mate descended the mizzen rigging and dropped into the lifeboat. Coxswain Blogg quickly turned the boat, hoisted the lugsail, and set a course for Great Yarmouth. One hour after the Louisa Heartwell arrived in Yarmouth, the Chanticleer came into port with the other nine survivors. The Cromer men had been at sea for fifteen hours.
The two lifeboats met at some point between the wreck and Gorleston. Coxswain Fleming, who had now been at sea for close to sixteen hours, transferred on to the Agnes Cross. With the help and guidance of Fleming, the Lowestoft lifeboat now approached the Hopelyn as darkness closed in. After a time the conditions forced the Agnes Cross to return to shore.
Werner Ehrensperger (born 10 March 1940) is a Swiss coxswain. Ehrensperger was born in 1940 in Lucerne, Switzerland. At the 1957 European Rowing Championships in Duisburg, Ehrensperger won a bronze medal in the coxed four event. At the 1958 European Rowing Championships in Poznań, Ehrensperger won a bronze medal in the coxed pair event with Gottfried Kottmann and Rolf Streuli.
The Miami class rescue boats were wooden-hulled, and powered by two Hall-Scott Defender petrol engines giving a top speed of 31.5 knots. They were armed with two twin .50 calibre M2 Browning machine guns mounted either side of the bridge. The crew comprised one officer in command, a coxswain, two engineers, two seamen and one or two radio operators.
This rowing event was a sweep event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Two rowers crewed each boat, with no coxswain. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking.
According to friend and interviewer Arthur Arlett, Ebright was small of stature (befitting a coxswain) and was affectionately nicknamed "The Little Admiral". He married Kathryn Doty Gruber Ebright (1907–2001); their families were friendly and were neighbors. They had two children, a son Malcolm and a daughter Margaret. On November 25, 1979, Ebright died in Berkeley, California at the age of 85.
A barrel hitch is tied around the drum, which is then lifted off the ground. It must then be lowered and the equipment "broken down" back to its original condition. Time stops when all crew members are back in line and called to attention by the coxswain. There are three runs per crew, and the crew with the fastest time wins.
The Miami class rescue boats were wooden-hulled, and powered by two Hall-Scott Defender petrol engines giving a top speed of 31.5 knots. They were armed with two twin .50 calibre M2 Browning machine guns mounted either side of the bridge. The crew comprised one officer in command, a coxswain, two engineers, two seamen and one or two radio operators.
John "Jack" Henry Donnelly (March 19, 1905 - August 19, 1986) was a Canadian coxswain, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won the bronze medal as cox of the Canadian boat in the men's eight competition. Donnelly was a coach at the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto, which represented Canada in the Olympics.
This rowing event was a sweep event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Two rowers crewed each boat, with no coxswain. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking.
Holmes was one of the main characters in Sea Patrol's 2007–2011 seasons. His character is Petty Officer Chris Blake, the Coxswain of a fictional Royal Australian Navy Patrol Boat.He made his first appearance in the first season (2007), and remained on the show until its series end. He appeared in twenty-one episodes, with the finale being broadcast in June 2011.
Michael Obst (born 22 June 1944) is a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Leipzig. At the 1959 European Rowing Championships in Mâcon, he won gold with the coxed four. In 1960 he was the coxswain of the German boat which won the gold medal in the coxed four event.
Klaus Zerta (born 25 November 1946) is a retired German rowing coxswain. He was part of the West German team that won gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the coxed pair event competing for the United Team of Germany. Zerta was the youngest medalist at the 1960 Games. He is the youngest confirmed male gold medalist in Olympics.
Sohen Biln (June 17, 1939 - March 27, 2012) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1958 Commonwealth Games and 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Westlock, Alberta. In 1960 he was the coxswain of the Canadian boat which won the silver medal in the eights event. At the Commonwealth Games in 1958 he got a silver medal in the coxed fours.
Marieke Aleida Westerhof (born 14 August 1974 in Denekamp, Overijssel) is a retired rower from the Netherlands. She won a silver medal in the women's eight with coxswain in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Four years earlier, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, Westerhof was part of the Dutch women's eight that finished sixth in the Olympic final.
Gigs are crewed by six rowers, and helmed by a coxswain. Modern gig racing dates from 1986, the founding of the CPGA, and the codification of class rules for the construction of new gigs. In 2018 the 200th gig was registered on the CPGA register, built by W.C. Hunkin and Sons of Fowey. A new gig, complete with trailer and all equipment, costs over £32,000.
Klaus-Dieter Neubert (born 22 November 1949) is a retired East German rowing coxswain, who had his best achievements in the coxed pairs, together with Wolfgang Gunkel and Jörg Lucke. They won the European title in 1971 and the Olympic gold medal in 1972, and finished second at the 1973 European and 1974 World Championships. Neubert placed fourth at the 1968 Olympics with another crew.
He then started further attempts to approach and by now the wind had strengthened to a near gale force. After four approaches the lifeboat finally got alongside and the lifeboatmen dragged the two crew from the cruiser aboard the lifeboat and to safety. The lifeboat was back at the Wells Station by 3.15 am. For his part in the rescue coxswain Taylor was awarded a Bronze medal.
This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Four rowers crew each boat, and no coxswain is used. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking.
This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Four rowers crew each boat, and no coxswain is used. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking.
Commodore Hull joined in the attacks on and the capture of Plymouth, N.C. on 29 October. On 31 October, she was heavily damaged by Confederate batteries, losing four killed and three wounded. Coxswain Patrick Colbert was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on that date. Colbert's Medal of Honor citation reads: > Served on board the U.S.S. Commodore Hull at the capture of Plymouth, 31 > October 1864.
Rank and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born. 1831, New York, N.Y. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 45, December 31, 1864. Citation: > Serving on board the U.S.S. Wyalusing during an attempt to destroy the rebel > ram Albemarle in Roanoke River, 25 May 1864, Lloyd participated in this > daring plan by swimming the Roanoke River heavily weighted with a line which > was used for hauling torpedoes across.
Donaldson's senior rowing was from the Mercantile Rowing Club. In 1979 he was selected to cox the Victorian men's eight who contested and won the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. Donaldson made his sole Australian representative appearance as coxswain of the 1979 Australian men's eight who contested the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled. That crew finished in fourth place.
As a result, a person can drown although wearing a fully functional life jacket. In addition there are some circumstances in which the use of self-triggering devices can result in the wearer becoming trapped underwater. For example, the coxswain of a bowloader rowing shell risks being unable to escape should the craft capsize. To be on the safe side, a pill-activated inflation device is preferred.
The boat was made possible by a donation of £250 by Lady Cotton-Sheppard (née Elizabeth Cotton of Thornton Hall, Oxfordshire), the third that she had underwritten. The boat hence was named Cotton Sheppard in a ceremony conducted by new vicar, The Rev. John Hughes who also became the stations Honorary Secretary, on 9 September 1864. The first coxswain was his brother Hugh Hughes.
Those killed were Coxswain John Stephen, Mechanic Frederick Kirkness and Crew Members William Hadden, James RS Buchan and James Buchan. In 2009, a local campaign was started to raise £40,000 to erect an official monument to the 14 men who lost their lives whilst serving on the Fraserburgh Lifeboat. The target was successfully achieved and the monument unveiled by Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun in August 2010.
Coxswain WestSheringham Lifeboats: By Leach, Nicholas and Russell, Paul :Published by landmark Pub Ltd, 2009: asked the captain to abandon ship, but he refused. The tug Serviceman arrived on the scene with the intention of taking the Zor in tow. Almost immediately after the tow began, the ship began to list violently. With this turn of events the captain asked the lifeboat to help them abandon ship.
The group assisted Smythe by pointing out the track leading to Gunna-waar Creek (Airedale), and, in gratitude, Smythe issued them with a note instructing his coxswain to provide them with flour at Blanket Bay. Four days later, he heard that one member of his party, the seaman James Conroy, had been killed by a local native, though the circumstances leading to his death are unknown.
He commanded USCGC Ivy (WAGL-329), was the executive officer of USCGC Chautauqua (WPG-41) and was the Captain of the Port in Houston. He served in the Coast Guard until 1962, accumulating 12 years of sea-time during his 23 years in the service. He retired at the rank of Commander. The Coast Guard awards an annual medal, named after Evans, to an outstanding coxswain.
Coxswain Patrick Colbert (1842 to January 19, 1877) was an Irish soldier who served in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Colbert received the United States' highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action aboard the U.S.S. Commodore Hull during the Capture of Plymouth on 31 October 1864. He was honored with the award on 31 December 1864.
"keep keel" is a command often heard from the coxswain when the boat starts to sway. (US) ; Lay-back : What the rowers have when they sit with their legs flat and lean towards the bow of the boat with their body. ; Leg drive : Power applied to the stroke, at the catch, by the force of driving the legs down. Often heard being yelled from the coach boat.
The coxswain or rower giving commands will indicate where in the stroke this pause should be taken. ; Pitch : The angle between a "squared" blade and a line perpendicular to the water's surface. ; Puddles : Disturbances made by an oar blade pulled through the water. The farther the puddles are pushed past the stern of the boat before each catch, the more “run” the boat is getting.
Jeroen Tarquinis Cornelis Duyster (born 27 August 1966 in Amsterdam, North Holland) is a former coxswain from the Netherlands, who won a gold medal with the Holland Acht (Holland Eights) as a cox at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the older brother of former Dutch field hockey international Willemijn Duyster, who won the bronze medal at the same Olympic tournament.
Gunther Tiersch (born 30 April 1954) is a meteorologist, and a former competition rower and Olympic champion for West Germany. Tiersch won a gold medal in the eight at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, as coxswain for the rowing team from West Germany.Profile: Gunther Tiersch sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 12 December 2008) Since 1987 he has been working as a meteorologist for German TV.
Albert E Beyer (June 13, 1859 – October 29, 1929) was a United States Navy Coxswain received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Cienfuegos during the Spanish–American War. He was one of 52 sailors and Marines awarded the Medal for actions during that battle. Albert is buried in the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, in the Naval Asylum plot.
Twenty minutes later the Louisa Heartwell had located the wrecked Alf. The lifeboat manoeuvred alongside the wreck and shouted and called but no response was seen or heard. Coxswain Blogg could see that both the Alf’s boats had been launched so he assumed that all the crew had abandoned ship. Blogg supposed that they were too late and decided to search the area for the launched boats.
Ute Skorupski (born 6 January 1959) is a rower who represented East Germany. Starting for SC DHfK Leipzig, Skorupski became world champion in the coxed four at the 1978 World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand with Kersten Neisser, Angelika Noack, Marita Sandig, and Kirsten Wenzel as coxswain. Skorupski won a silver medal in coxed four at the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia.
Huibert Gerard Boumeester (Batavia, Dutch East Indies [now Jakarta] 18 October 1900 – Utrecht, 6 December 1959) was a Dutch rower. In 1920, he competed at the Summer Olympic Games in Antwerp, as a member of the Dutch Men's Eight With Coxswain (8+) rowing team. He was the youngest member of the Dutch team. The rowing competitions took place at the Willebroek canal, near Brussels.
Daniel Quigley (born 16 May 1988) is a New Zealand coxswain. In 2006 Quigley was selected as cox in the New Zealand four, along with James Dallinger, Steven Cottle, Paul Gerritsen, and Dane Boswell. They won gold at the FISA Under 23 World Championships also setting a new world-record time of 6.03 in Hazelwinkel, Belgium and Bronze at the World Championships in Eton, UK.
This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Four rowers crew each boat, and no coxswain is used. The competition consists of multiple rounds. Finals were held to determine the placing of each boat; these finals were given letters with those nearer to the beginning of the alphabet meaning a better ranking.
Burnand as a coxswain has been involved in rowing since 1981. She started rowing whilst studying at the University of Sydney. In 1986, she was a member on the Australian U23 team and in 1987 held an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship. She was a member of the Australian Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Coxed Four ( LTAMix4+) team that competed at the 2015 World Rowing Championships.
Fourteen copper-clad water-tight cases, five on each side and four down the mid line provided buoyancy. Oars and two foul-weather sprit-sails provided propulsion and there was provision for self-draining when she was fully waterlogged. About 30’ overall and 7’ breadth, she was capable of supporting 25 men even when flooded. Her normal crew was six oarsmen and a coxswain.
Seely was also Vice-President of the RNLI. He was a keen sailor and for much of his life was coxswain of the Brook Lifeboat. Seely served as Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire from 1918 to 1947. He was also a Justice of the Peace (JP) for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, the first Chairman of Wembley Stadium, and a director of Thomas Cook.
Axel Emanuel Eriksson (10 March 1884 – 20 December 1975) was a Swedish rower who competed in the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he was a member of the Swedish boat Vaxholm that was eliminated in the first round of the coxed four competition. Eight years later he rowed with his younger brother Gösta as a coxswain, and they were again eliminated in the first round.
Christian was the Mayor of the Pitcairn Islands, a British dependency in the Pacific Ocean, from 7 December 1999 to 30 October 2004. He also acted as the island's supervising engineer, dentist, radiographer, and as coxswain of the longboat, which is described as Pitcairn's umbilical cord to the outside world. He was formally dismissed from office on 30 October 2004, following his rape conviction on 24 October.
Gustav Adolf Moths (born 21 September 1877, date of death unknown) was a German rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was the coxswain with the German crew in the coxed four A semi-final, but he did not compete in the final. However the IOC medal database credits the bronze medal to him and not to Max Ammermann, who participated in the final.
Oscar Charles de Somville (19 August 1876 - 30 August 1938) was a Belgian rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In both 1900 and 1908 he was the only one with coxswain Alfred Van Landeghem who was both two times part of the Belgian boat Royal Club Nautique de Gand, which won the silver medal in the men's eight.
Roger Édouard Louis Marie Joseph Ghislain Moeremans d'Emaüs (12 June 1890 - 19 March 1975) was a Belgian horse rider and rowing coxswain who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he and his horse Sweet Girl won the bronze medal in the team eventing, after finishing fourth in the individual eventing competition. They also participated in the individual jumping event and finished seventh.
Born in 1852 in Sweden, Anderson migrated to the United States and joined the Navy from New York. By June 28, 1878, he was serving as a coxswain on the . On that day, he rescued First Class Boy W. H. Moffatt from drowning, for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. Anderson's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > On board the U.S.S. Powhatan, 28 June 1878.
The station employs two full-time members, Coxswain and Mechanic. The remaining crew, who all live within about 3 miles of the station, are volunteers and are contacted by pager when needed. Neighbouring lifeboat stations are to the north, Little and Broad Haven to the south and Rosslare Harbour in Ireland to the west. The lifeboat station is the embarkation point for ferries to Ramsey Island.
Douglas Edwin Kertland (November 23, 1887 - March 4, 1982) was a Canadian architect and athlete. He was a rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a coxswain of the Canadian boat, which won the bronze medal in the men's eight. He later became an architect and designed numerous buildings in Canada, and was a president of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).
The volunteer crews of the RNLI do not expect reward or recognition for their work, but many rescues have been recognised by letters, certificates and medals from the RNLI management. The following are just some of the most notable. In 1948 three people were rescued from the yacht Mite during an operation that lasted eleven hours. For this Coxswain Frederick Palmer was awarded an RNLI Bronze medal.
Fry was educated at Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne where she was introduced to rowing and coached by Australian national and senior Victorian coxswain Susie Palfreyman. Fry coxed an MLC crew which won the 1984 Victorian Public Schools' women’s four. Fry's senior coxing was with the Melbourne University Ladies Boat Club. During her Australian Institute of Sport scholarship years she rowed from the Canberra Rowing Club.
He combined with Brock Ingram, Davinia Lefroy, Kathleen Murdoch and coxswain Jo Burnand in the Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Coxed Four ( LTAMix4+) to win the Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta in April 2016. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, McGrath was a member of the LTA Mixed Coxed Four that finished first in the LTAMix4+ B Final. He is currently a member of the Balmain Rowing Club.
Stefan Stoykov (, born 7 October 1953) is a Bulgarian rowing coxswain. Stoykov's first international appearance was at the 1977 World Rowing Championships where he coxed the Bulgarian pair to win the world championship. Subsequent world championship appearances in 1979, 1981, 1983 and 1985 had sixth place as the best result. Stoykov competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the coxed pair and they came fifth.
Henry Blogg made his last voyage on the Millie Walton under the new coxswain Henry "Shrimp" Davies on 4 September 1948 at the age of 71. The call was to the rescue of the steam trawler Balmoral and 11 lives were saved. Henry Blogg retired after 53 years service with the service and he was the holder of the most awards by the RNLI.
Bradley competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics, with rowers Jennifer Corbet, Cynthia Eckert, and Sarah Gengler, and coxswain Kim Santiago. Their boat placed fifth out of the ten boats competing in the event. She also competed in the 1986 World Rowing Championships, placing fourth in women's eights, and in the 1987 World Rowing Championships, placing fourth in women's pairs.
Dumitru Răducanu (born 19 July 1967) is a retired Romanian rowing coxswain. He competed at the 1984, 1992 and 2000 Olympics and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. At the world championships he won one gold, three silver and two bronze medals between 1985 and 1999. Răducanu took up rowing in 1982, and after retiring from competitions in 2000 worked as a rowing coach.
In fact he had been a pirate taking part in Henry Every's raid in the Indian Ocean. His credentials had been established by Hugenot, and East India Company connections. See Mr Bridgman's Accomplice -Long Ben's Coxswain 1660-1722, John Dann, 2109 . Around 1700, Brerewood began keeping a running account with Coggs and Dann, whose shop in the Strand was near his house on Norfolk Street.
Jennifer Sichel (born March 9, 1988 in Clifton, New Jersey) is an American coxswain. She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. She won three silver medals from the World Rowing Championships and a silver medal from the 2016 Paralympic Games. She is a Royal Canadian Henley Regatta champion, a five-time Head of the Charles Regatta champion, and three-time U.S. national champion.
Bernard Robert Malivoire (20 April 1938 – 18 December 1982) was a French rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bergerac, Dordogne. In 1952 he was the coxswain of the French boat which won the gold medal in the coxed pairs event. Malivoire was the youngest medalist and gold medalist at the 1952 Games with 14 years and 95 days.
Miroslav Koranda (6 November 1934 – 6 October 2008) was a Czech coxswain who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Prague. In 1952 he coxed the Czechoslovak boat that won the gold medal in the coxed four event. Four years later he coxed the Czechoslovak boat that was eliminated in the semi-final of the eight competition.
Jack had rowed with his brother Eric at Torrens. Eric was the Torren's club captain in 1947-48.Torrens Captains at Guerin Foster Their mother, Vaughan's grandmother had a long involvement with the club from 1931 till her 1946 death.Torrens History State representation first came for Vaughan Bollen in 1961 as the coxswain of the South Australian men's eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.
In 1964 Grover was selected as coxswain of an Australian four which finished tenth in the coxed four event at the Tokyo Olympics. Four years later he steered the Australian men's eight to a silver medal at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At the 1972 Munich Olympics he was again in the stern of the Australian crew which finished in eighth place in the men's eight event.
Vladimir Viktorovich Petrov (, born 27 April 1932) is a Russian rowing coxswain who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moscow in 1932. In 1956 he coxed the Soviet boat that won the bronze medal in the coxed pair event. He was also the cox of the Soviet boat that was eliminated in the semi-finals of the eight competition.
Recently the club has produced several world class rowers. The club is currently coached by Ahsan Iqbal and is affiliated with La Salle University and Episcopal Academy. left ;Pennsylvania Barge Club Founded in 1861 and located at No. 4 Boathouse Row, the Pennsylvania Barge Club is also known as the Hollenback House, after William M. Hollenback Jr., who from 1979 to 1985 served as the president of the governing body of rowing, USRowing. It is alleged that painter Thomas Eakins was a member of the Pennsylvania Barge Club as he frequently painted rowers, and one of his close friends, Max Schmitt, is known to have rowed for the club and won the single sculls national championship 6 times. Pennsylvania Barge Club represented the United States at the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 (coxed four), 1924 (coxed four), 1928 (coxed four and four without coxswain) and 1932 (pair with coxswain).
Vladimír Petříček (born 17 June 1948) is a retired Czech rowing coxswain who competed for Czechoslovakia. He had his best achievements in the coxed pairs with Oldřich Svojanovský and Pavel Svojanovský, winning the European title in 1969, an Olympic silver medal in 1972, and a world championships bronze medal in 1974. He also won a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1972 Olympics and finished fourth in 1976.
Andreas Gregor (born 27 April 1955) is a retired German rowing coxswain who had his best achievements in the coxed fours. In this event he won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics as well as three world titles in 1977, 1978 and 1982. He won another world title in 1983, in coxed pairs. For his Olympic achievement Gregor was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in 1980.
The stone breakwater at the mouth of Tillamook Bay is only 400 meters wide. During heavy weather the waves off the harbor entrance can be high, making entering the harbor dangerous. During the July 4th weekend of 1980 Richard Dixon, the United States Coast Guard coxswain of a 44-foot Motor Lifeboat, lead two daring rescues off the Tillamook Bay breakwater, for which he was awarded two Coast Guard Medals.
Plinio Ansèlme Brusa (27 August 1899 – 24 July 1969) was an Italian-Swiss- French rower who competed for France in the coxed pair event. Together with André Giriat and coxswain Pierre Brunet he won the French championships in 1927 and 1931, the European title in 1931, and an Olympic bronze medal in 1932. Brusa was Italian. He was born in Switzerland, where he won a national title in gymnastics.
Gleaves 1921. pp. 260-61. On 21 July, Santa Olivia was decommissioned at the Grace Line Pier, Brooklyn, and returned the same day to her owner, W. R. Grace & Co. A teenage Humphrey Bogart served on USS Santa Olivia in 1919 as a coxswain. After being transferred from in February, Bogart missed an April sailing of Santa Olivia, but avoided being listed as a deserter by reporting for duty within hours.
Jahrling was born in East Berlin, Germany. His parents, Marina Wilke and Harald Jährling, are both Olympic gold medallists in rowing for East Germany. His mother – the coxswain of the East German women's eight – was not yet sixteen when Jahrling was born. Jahrling attended Newington College (1991–1992)Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Sydney, 1999) p 98 and was coached by Robert Buntine and Michael Morgan.
Worth Reef is an arc of rocks forming the northernmost part of the Henkes Islands. They were named for Acting Corporal David A. Worth of the BRNHS. The easternmost of the Henkes Islands is Biggs Island, actually a small island. It was named for Thomas Biggs, a Falkland Islander, coxswain of the launch of RRS John Biscoe, which was used by the BRNHS to chart this island in 1963.
The Skegness lifeboat had to be drawn up to the beach from the town by six horses before her launch. Aboard the vessel was the captain, his wife and child and eight more members of its crew. In pitch black and in heavy seas coxswain Moody took the private lifeboat out to the vessel and rescued all aboard. For his part in the rescue, Moody was awarded a Silver Medal.
George William Robert Burns (25 October 1919 - 20 November 1995) was a New Zealand coxswain who represented his country at the 1938 British Empire Games. He won the silver medal as part of the men's coxed four at the 1938 British Empire Games. He was a member of the Petone Rowing Club, and his team members in the 1938 boat were Jim Clayton (stroke), Kenneth Boswell, John Rigby, and Albert Hope.
He was saved by the efforts of the LSA operating from the pier. Although the tragedy saw the loss of three of the crew Coxswain Thomas Sinclair was awarded a Bronze Medal for his part in the rescue and his determination and skill in taking the Emma Constance five times into the narrow space between the pier wall and the wreck despite the damage sustained to the lifeboat.
In the Royal Navy, the term cockpit originally referred to the area where the coxswain was stationed. This led to the word being used to refer to the area towards the stern of a small decked vessel that houses the rudder controls. The midshipmen and master's mates were later berthed in the cockpit, and it served as the action station for the ship's surgeon and his mates during battle.
With a crew of six fishermen from Placentia and Sinnott as coxswain, the Placentia took first place. The men had carried the boat on their shoulders along the 145 km (90 mile) trail from Placentia to St. John's, leaving on Saturday night and arriving on the Wednesday morning before the regatta. The crew, known as "The Seven Placentia Giants", was inducted into the Regatta's Hall of Fame in 1987.
Elena Giurcă (11 January 1946 – September 2013) was a Romanian rowing coxswain. She took up rowing in 1966 and debuted internationally at the 1969 European Championships, winning a bronze medal in the eights. Later, she mostly competed in the quadruple sculls, finishing third and fourth at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics, respectively. She also won silver medals in this event at the 1974 and 1977 world championships.
Khristov competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the coxed pair with Tsvetan Petkov as his rowing partner and Todor Kishev as the coxswain and they came fourth. At the 1977 World Rowing Championships he won a bronze medal in the coxed four. He also came seventh in the men's eight. At the 1978 World Rowing Championships he won bronze in the coxed four and came fifth in the coxed pair.
O'Brien commanded one of the launches which approached and boarded the ship despite heavy fire from the Confederate Fort Moultrie. Beatrice's equipment was then confiscated and the ship set afire. For these actions, O'Brien was awarded the Medal of Honor a month later on December 31, 1864. O'Brien's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > Served as coxswain on board the U.S. Sloop John Adams, Sullivan's Island > Channel, 28 November 1864.
Walter Ludin (27 February 1908 – ?) was a Swiss coxswain. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the men's coxed pair where they were eliminated in the round one repêchage. Ludin won medals at various European Rowing Championships in the coxed pair boat class: silver in 1950 and 1951, and gold in 1954 and 1955. He won two European silver medals, in 1949 and 1951, with the coxed four.
That ended the action with an American victory. The Fanning and Nicholsons sinking of U-58 was one of only a few engagements of World War I in which U.S. Navy warships sank an enemy submarine. Also the first time U.S. ships sank a submarine in combat. Lieutenant William O. Henry and Coxswain Daniel Lommis both received a Navy Cross for their actions during their encounter with U-58.
The Cecil Paine was launched with difficulty at 10:05 p.m. requiring her tractor and carriage to wade into deep water to reach a suitable launching depth. The lifeboat arrived on the scene at 10:55pm but could not get to the Seamu immediately as it touched bottom on the sandbank. By 11:00pm, and following some manoeuvring by Second Coxswain Frank Taylor, the lifeboat was able to cross the sandbank.
Cadman married Elizabeth Mortimer, who had two daughters, on 26 October 1830 at St Phillip's Church. They all lived at the Cottage until his step-daughters married in 1842 and 1845. Cadman held the position of coxswain and occupied the Cottage until he retired in 1845. Francis Low's Directory for 1847 advertises the John Cadman Steam Packet Hotel at Parramatta confirming that he had departed from Sydney by this time.
On 31 January 1938 the motor lifeboat Caroline Parsons went out in aid of the SS Alba. 23 people were rescued but as the lifeboat turned to head home it was capsized by a large wave that came from the side. It righted but ran aground on rocks. The lifeboat Coxswain Thomas Cocking and his eight crewmen got ashore safely but five of the rescued men were lost.
The tug Serviceman arrived on the scene with the intention of taking the Zor in tow. Almost immediately after the tow began the ship began to list violently. With this turn of events the captain asked the lifeboat to help them abandon ship. To extract the remaining four men Coxswain West manoeuvred the lifeboat to the exposed port side of the ship were a rope was hanging over the side.
Haylett, the coxswain, supported himself on two oars before drifting close by the foremast, on which were his son Aaron, William Knowles and Joseph Haylett. They kept afloat for a time, but the mast kept rolling over in the swell. Aaron moved to his father’s oars but William and Joseph were drowned. John George, another of the crew, swam towards the shore and came across a shrimper, The Brothers, of Yarmouth.
The Louisa Heartwell found that Alf was in a bad way when she returned to the scene. The barque had broken in two and her cargo of timber was washing out. The waves were crashing across her deck, which was now under water. Coxswain Blogg manoeuvred his boat under lee quarter of Alf, and held the Louise Heartwell in this position despite her stern's being struck by a huge wave.
Born in 1836 in New York City, Hamilton was still living in the state of New York when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, he "performed his duties with skill and courage" despite heavy fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864.
Hoban was born September 11, 1872 in New York City, New York and after entering the navy was sent to fight in the Spanish–American War aboard the U.S.S. Nashville as a coxswain. On May 11, 1898 the Nashville was given the task of cutting the cable leading from Cienfuegos, Cuba. During the operation and facing heavy enemy fire, Hoban continued to perform his duties throughout this action.
It was one of the original events in the Olympics but was dropped in 1992.FISA World Rowing - Olympic Games The world fastest time in the coxed four has been set by the crew from Germany in the final of the World Championships in Vienna, Austria in 1991. The crew of Matthias Ungemach, Armin Weyrauch, Armin Eichholz, Bahne Rabe and coxswain Jörg Dedering finished in a time of 5:58.96 min.
There are contradictory sources regarding the Swiss coxswain. The official Olympic record lists Walter Loosli as having coxed the team in all their three races. Other Olympic results lists show Émile Lachapelle as the Swiss cox. This page reflects how the results are displayed by the Sports Reference database, where Loosli is shown to have competed on the day of the heats and repechage, and replaced by Lachapelle in the final.
Then along with four of that crew he was selected in the Australian men's eight for the 1938 Commonwealth Games. That eight with Bowden as coxswain took the silver medal behind the British crew. After a some years' absence from competition due to WWII, Bowden contested the New South Wales 1947 state title for eights in a North Shore Rowing Club crew of which he was cox and coach.
First three recruits to answer the call were Mr. Stephen Beastall, Mr. Jeffrey Gourlay and Mr. Brian Joyce. Both Beastall and Gourlay realised their goal of becoming Coxswain of the ship, the most senior non commissioned sailor of the unit and a member of the command team. During the early 1980s the Naval Reserve Detachment continued to grow in London. Within three years Prevost grew to 45 personnel.
The adult leaders are called Schipper (Skipper) and Stuurman (Coxswain). A patrol is called bak, its leader Boots(man) and his/her assistant Kwartiermeester. Water Scouts (which number 5,400 in the Netherlands) use Juniorvletten or Lelievletten. The (Matrozen ter) Wilde Vaart (sailors of the high seas in English) are the Sea Scouting version of Explorers, a unit is referred to as Afdeling Wilde Vaart uses Lelievletten or Lelieschouwen.
Bruno Cipolla (born 24 December 1952) is a retired Italian rowing coxswain who had his best achievements in the coxed pairs, together with Renzo Sambo and Primo Baran. They won a European title in 1967 and an Olympic gold medal in 1968, for which Cipolla received a car from the Fiat company. His career was interrupted for six months by a motorcycle accident after the Olympics. He retired in 1971.
Coxswain Trevelyan Richards was posthumously awarded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's gold medal, while the remainder of the crew were all posthumously awarded bronze medals. The station itself was awarded a gold medal service plaque. The disaster prompted a massive public appeal for the benefit of the village of Mousehole which raised over £3 million (£ as of ), although there was an outcry when the government tried to tax the donations.
Rowe made the crew for New Zealand's women's eight in 2017. The team made history with their gold medal at the 2017 World Rowing Cup II, as it was the first time in elite rowing following a recent rule change that a male coxswain—Sam Bosworth—won with a female team. At the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, she won a bronze medal with the New Zealand women's eight.
It took the lifeboat crew two journeys to Hope Cove to land the survivors of the tordepoed ship, but the Louis Sheid's own crew eventually got ashore after it ran aground in Bigbury Bay.Leach, Nicholas (2009) p. 22 Coxswain Edwin Distin (a survivor of the 1916 capsize) was awarded the RNLI Silver Medal for his seamanship during this rescue. The remainder of the crew were awarded bronze medals.
Morgan represented Australia in the men's quad scull at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. His crew won their heat in a world's best time of 5:36.20, beating the previous fastest time, set by Poland, by a second. The Australians finished fourth in the final. At the 2010 World Rowing Championships Morgan won the coxed pair world championship title with partner Dominic Grimm and coxswain David Webster at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand.
On 9 December 1797, Cadman was sentenced to transportation for life at the Worcester assizes, after being arrested at Bewdley on the charge of stealing a horse.Australian Dictionary of Biography, online Edition. Cadman, John (1772–1848) Cadman was transported aboard Barwell, which left Portsmouth, 7 November 1797 and reached Sydney, 18 May 1798.Ozships: Australian Shipping on the net In 1809, Cadman became the coxswain of a government boat.
In 1881 the station relocated to Saint Peter Port Harbour castle emplacement with the Castle slipway being amended to suit lifeboat launches. 1896 saw the introduction of maroons to summon the crew. In June 1940 the relief lifeboat Alfred and Clara Heath ON 672 was strafed by German aircraft and the Coxswain Fred Hobbs, was killed. This lifeboat stayed in Guernsey during the occupation and was used by German navy.
Henry Kent Mitchell II (born March 29, 1939) is a retired American rowing coxswain. He competed in the coxed pairs at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a bronze and a gold medal, respectively. He was a law student at the UC Berkeley School of Law at the time. He won a bronze medal in the same event in 1960 while an undergraduate at Stanford University (class of 1961).
Page 403/404. The yacht was on passage from the Netherlands with her skipper, a schoolmaster, and four teenage school children as passengers. Both lifeboats reached the stricken yacht at 10:15 am and found that the P&O; cargo ferry was standing by and was providing some shelter for the yacht. Freddie Cooper coxswain Ian Firman managed to get alongside and pulled three of people of the yacht.
Academically, he is at the head of his class, but he has made no friends. Dick sticks it out but the admiral worries about his isolation, as one of the goals of the academy is to create bonds between the midshipmen. Coxswain flunks out of school and castigates Dick for his attitude. After June moves to New York to become a professional dancer, Dick is more alone than ever.
Paul Hoffman (born April 21, 1946) is an American coxswain who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in New York City in 1946. Hoffman was the cox for the men's eight at the 1967 European Rowing Championships where the team won silver. He was a member of the US Olympic Rowing Team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Raised in Perth, Chan was educated at Trinity College, Perth where he took up coxing. Chan was the prominent state representative coxswain for Western Australian for a number of years from 1995. He coxed West Australian men's eights contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships every year from 1995 to 2001. He steered the 1999 WA eight to a King's Cup victory.
When the lifeboat reached the barque the captain and crew were taken aboard, however the Captain wanted to leave a cabin boy aboard the ship to prevent salvage claims being made by others. Eventually the coxswain of the Augusta persuaded the Captain that all 17 members of the crew should be taken off the ship and the Captain and crew were saved and landed at Brancaster. Augusta's services were not recorded at the time although tradition credits her with 200 launches and over 1,000 lives saved, however research so far has established more realistic figures of just over 200 lives saved in 16 launches with 4 further unconfirmed services. During the 56 years of Augusta's service, not one lifeboatman was lost, this may well be attributed to the skill of the Coxswain and crews and their local knowledge of this part of the coast and not least of all because they always wore their lifejackets.
The next morning the lifeboat returned to the Tyne through still mountainous seas and Coxswain Smith was badly injured by a sea which came on board. For their efforts, the following awards were made by the Tynemouth Medal Trust : To Captain Burton, the second Gold Medal ; to Coxswain Smith, Frederick Luter of the crew of the “Dunelm” and Coastguard William Marsden of Blyth Coastguard, Silver Medals ; to J.G. Smith, Thomas Cummings, J.R. Grant, J.R. Brownlee, and J.S. Brownlee, all of the crew of the Tynemouth lifeboat, Anthony Nixon, Robert Lisle Dawson, Ralph Macarthy, George Renner Armstrong, Adam Robertson and Emanuel Morgan Kelsey, Parchment Certificates. Captain Burton had previously been awarded the Tynemouth Medal Trust’s Silver Medal in August 1904. In 1914, he was also awarded a bar, the only bar awarded to date (1998) to his Gold Medal for the rescue of part of the crew of the hospital ship “Rohilla” at Whitby.
Ladislau Lovrenschi (born 21 June 1932) is a retired rowing coxswain. He was born in a Hungarian community in Romania, where he is also known as László Lavrenszki. He competed in the coxed pairs and coxed fours at the 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1988 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1968 and a silver in 1988, placing fourth in 1980 and 1988. In 1970 he became the first world champion in rowing from Romania.
The crew were ferried across to the nearby island of Sebayer by the ship's boats while the Japanese aircraft strafed them, where they joined some survivors from the Dragonfly. However the ship did not sink initially and after the planes departed, several crewmen were sent back on board to scavenge supplies.Varley (1973): p. 60 Among the survivors were six captured Japanese airmen and two pregnant women who had their babies delivered by the ship's coxswain.
The U.S. Navy's enlisted occupational system was a product of more than 200 years of Naval evolution. The Navy of the United Colonies of the 1775 era offered only a few different jobs above the ordinary level of seaman. These included boatswain's mate, quartermaster, gunner's mate, master-at-arms, cook, armorer, and coxswain. These were titles of the jobs that individuals were actually performing and became the basis for petty officers and ratings.
Schooner Emma, page 18. the coastline of Wells-next-the-Sea was being lashed by a heavy north-easterly gale. The lifeboat was launched to service in heavy seas. The schooner Emma of Jersey had been blown onto the East Bar and had become stranded. With coxswain Horace Hinson at the helm, the lifeboat arrived to find the schooner’s sails torn, her bulwarks washed away and the heavy sea crashing over the deck.
Women's eight competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held on August 11 (heats), 13 (Repechage) and 17 (Final A), at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Eight rowers and one coxswain crew each boat. The seven teams competing are placed into two heats, of four and three boats each.
The Chart Room Signalman Edward Allen At 8.15 am, the Cromer Lifeboat Station was alerted and asked to aid the English Trader and the lifeboat H F Bailey was launched. She was crewed by twelve men including the triple RNLI Gold Medal holding coxswain Henry Blogg. By 11.35 that morning, the lifeboat had reached Hammond Knoll. By this time, three of the English Trader's crew had been swept off the foundering ship to their death.
Meanwhile, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat had been launched and was on its way. Between 4 and 6 pm, that lifeboat made five attempts to get alongside with a line without any success. After these attempts and with darkness setting in, Coxswain Charles Johnson and his crew also reluctantly returned to Great Yarmouth after receiving orders from the Royal Navy. By 8 am the next morning, the Cromer Lifeboat was back at the Sands.
Coxswain William P. Brownell (July 12, 1839 to April 26, 1915) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War. Brownell received the country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor, for his action aboard the USS Benton during the Battle of Grand Gulf on 2 May 1863 and the Siege of Vicksburg at New Bern on 22 May 1863. He was honored with the award on 16 April 1864.
A mirror of the Eights Head of the River for male crews, it is held a fortnight earlier when the tides are similar. It is raced on the outgoing tide and starting around one hour after high tide in order to maximise advantage from the tidal flow. Around 300 crews of women (with the occasional male coxswain) compete for over a dozen trophies and pennants. There are categories for beginners, elite and veteran rowers.
Skiffs with more than one sculler have a seat for a coxswain who steers the boat by ropes attached to a rudder. Single scullers usually steer themselves, but some single skiffs allow for a cox/passenger as well. Some skiffs also provide for a sail to be used. Skiffs following the traditional Thames design are to be found in the Netherlands and Argentina, although Argentinian skiffs usually have outriggers instead of tholes.
Aged 56, Thompson-Willie coxed the women's eight for Canada at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Her crew would go on to finish 5th. As of 2019 she continues to train with the national team, and has been named as coxswain of the Canadian men's eight for the World Rowing Cup. She is one of only nine athletes who have competed at eight Olympic Games with her record standing alone among rowers.
Peter Niehusen (born 15 July 1951) is the only sportsman to have won international medals as both a coxswain and a rower. He won two gold medals and three bronze medals at the European and World Championships and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Niehusen was born in Lübeck, Germany, in 1951. He coxed the eight from Ratzeburg to European gold in 1965, and the first "Deutschland Achter" in 1966 to world gold.
Ken Dreyfuss (born October 8, 1947) is an American coxswain. He captained and coxed the 1969 Penn heavyweight crew that broke Harvard's six year winning streak and went on to win three consecutive team championships at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships. He competed in the men's coxed pair event at the 1975 World Rowing Championships, the 1975 Pan- American Games (in which he won a gold medal), and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Captain Solvatore, the Chief mate, Chief Engineer and the Wireless Operator refused to leave the Monte Nevoso. Coxswain Blogg tried in vain to get the men to leave but they refused. The Cromer lifeboat set off to Great Yarmouth with the rescued men. At 2:00 pm, after obtaining dry clothes and fuel the H F Bailey set off with its weary crew back to the Monte Nevoso, their work not yet completed.
The Daunt Lightship Comet survived. After she was sold, she became Radio Scotland, a Pirate radio station. Coxswain Patsy Sliney retired in 1950, he had taken part in the rescue of 114 lives and was awarded Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals . Mary Stanford was a reserve lifeboat from 1959 until 1969 when she was sold to the Limerick Harbour Commissioners, where she served as a harbour pilot launch until the mid-1980s.
She was off the port side firing 5-inch star shells for illumination, to spot icebergs, when there was a misfire. According to standard procedure the gunner began to point the barrel toward the water to wait out a hangfire. However, the round cooked off halfway down. The round hit Missouri on the signal bridge, killing Coxswain Robert Fountain and starting a fire involving an acetylene tank which was lashed to the railing.
In 1919 the Sennen Cove Lifeboat was recognised for rescuing eight people from the SS Falmouth Castle. A silver medal and three bronze medals being given to members of the crew. That same year saw Henry Nicholas receive another silver medal along with Second Coxswain Thomas Pender, while the 12 crew members were awarded bronze medals for saving eight people from a motor launch. One of the crew was 17-year-old Henry Nicholas Junior.
Edward Francis Jennings (April 9, 1898 - February 9, 1975) was an American rowing coxswain who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was born in Pennsylvania and died in San Diego, California. In 1924 he was the cox of the American boat, which won the bronze medal in the coxed pairs. Eight years later he won the gold medal as cox of the American boat in the same event.
Later, he was awarded the American Gold Cross of Honour, given once in two years by the United States to a foreign national. This was only the second occasion for such an award. His task completed, he resigned from active life- boat service, knowing that the local men, led by Coxswain Smith, shared his faith in the powered boat. The second world war brought new responsibilities ; the Tyne defence and the work in Training Schools.
Bernd Kaiser (born 11 April 1951) is a German coxswain. He was the cox of the East German eight that became world champion in 1978. The 1.68 m tall and 51 kg heavy Kaiser started for SC Dynamo Berlin and won his first GDR national championship with the eight in 1972; however, that year the Olympic team did not take part in the championship. Kaiser won his second GDR championship title in 1978.
At the 1975 East German championships, he came third in the coxed pair alongside Lindner and Georg Spohr as coxswain. At the 1976 East German championships, Gottschalt and Lindner became national champions, with Frank Berger as cox. At the 1977 East German championships, Gottschalt and Lindner were part of the men's eight that took the national title. That team went to the 1977 World Rowing Championships where they became world champions in that boat class.
Coxless fours (4-) are often referred to as straight fours, and are commonly used by lightweight and elite crews and are raced at the Olympics. In club and school rowing, one more frequently sees a coxed four (4+) which is easier to row, and has a coxswain to steer. ;Pair (2-) or (2+): A shell with 2 rowers. The coxless pair (2-), often called a straight pair, is a demanding but satisfying boat to master.
It was now the morning of 21 October and the Agnes Cross left her home port with a mixture of Lowestoft and Gorleston crewmen. The gale was still blowing strong. Once back at the wreck of the Hopelyn, coxswain Swan manoeuvred his lifeboat alongside the Hopelyn holding it in position with great skill. Quickly the crew of the ship left the wireless room and scrambled down ropes on to the motor lifeboat Agnes Cross.
After graduating from high school, Gensler and his identical twin brother enrolled at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where Gensler earned an undergraduate degree in economics, summa cum laude, in three years, followed by a master's in business administration the following year. As an undergraduate, Gensler joined the University of Pennsylvania crew team as a coxswain, dropping his weight to 112 pounds to keep the boat at its proper weight.
His maternal great-aunt, Amy, had married Captain David Jones, the Ferryside coxswain. They lived at Alpha House in Eva Terrace. Their son, David, ran the Dorothy Café next to the Ship Inn; he was followed there by his son, Raymond, who was Thomas’ second cousin. Thomas’ drinking in the White Lion, and his friendship with Dick Bright of 2, Neptune Villas, is described by Bright’s niece, Beryl Hughes.B. Hughes (1998) The Cat’s Whiskers, Hughes.
Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) is a student with aspirations to become a lawyer. A "townie" who grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks", he did well enough in school to attend college on a scholarship where he is a champion rower. His best friends at college are his love interest Chloe (Leslie Bibb), and Will (Hill Harper). Will is the coxswain of the Bulldog 8's rowing team and Luke is the captain.
In 1903, Dodge graduated from Columbia University, where he was president of his class, manager of the track team, and coxswain of his class crew (sometimes referred to as college rowing). Upon his graduation, he and his maternal aunt, Helen Hartley (Mrs. George W.) Jenkins, presented the Hartley Hall dormitory to Columbia. The building became Columbia's largest dormitory and created more of a college atmosphere for the new campus in Morningside Heights.
Sailing with the Carcass was a young Horatio Nelson, whose position as a midshipman on the expedition had been arranged by his uncle, Maurice Suckling. Suckling and Lutwidge knew each other well, Lutwidge having served under Suckling on a number of occasions, including time spent acting against privateers in 1771. Nelson was given the role of coxswain of Lutwidge's gig. Nelson managed to obtain command of the Carcasss cutter as the expedition progressed.
Eventually, the royal barge was accidentally hit with a large tree and the figurehead of the royal barge was damaged and fallen off. The consequence of guilty coxswain is beheading based on ancient monarch law. Sing was initially given a special pardon from King Sanphet VIII because he thought it was just an accident but Sing denied. King Sanphet then ordered the crew to create a clay statue represented Sing and beheaded it instead.
The highly experienced Pritchard took over the controls from the American coxswain and reduced the oscillation, but several girders in the vicinity of the midship engine cars had already failed. The control surfaces were still over balanced. More importantly girders of intermediate frame 7b as well as longitudinal Girder F had failed in one place, while frame 7a and longitudinal F' each had failed in two locations.Douglas H. Robinson, and Charles L. Keller.
Zdenko Balaš (Serbian: Зденко Балаш, born 9 September 1940 in Slavonski Brod) is a Croatian coxswain. He competed for Yugoslavia in the 1964 European Rowing Championships in Amsterdam in the eight competition where he won a bronze medal. The same team competed two months later in the men's eight at the 1964 Summer Olympics where they came fourth. The whole team was inducted into the Slovenian Athletes Hall of Fame in 2012.
He was coxswain for the men's eight. The Thames club won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1923, but only four members of that victorious crew, Ian Fairbairn, Godwin himself, Arthur Long, and Charles Rew, were present at the Paris Olympics. His team came in fourth in the Olympic competition. Godwin was again part of the Thames club team when they won the Grand Challenge Cup in 1927.
Archery a wounded Commando is brought to a LCA. In the steering shelter, the coxswain appears to be keeping the craft nosed onto the beach by keeping the engines gently ahead while a seaman is preventing the craft from broaching to with a quant pole. In March, LCAs carried the first British Commando raid of the war, directed at Norway. Operation Claymore was conducted by men of No. 3 and No. 4 Commandos.
In 1993, the Brown crew team had a perfect season. The eight-man crew consisted of Igor Boraska, Paul DiGiacomo, David Filippone, Gus Koven, Jamie Koven, Xeno Muller, Tony Padula, Chris Sahs, and coxswain Brian Madden. The team went undefeated, won the Eastern Sprints, the IRA (Intercollegiate Rowing Association) Championships, and the National Collegiate Rowing Championships. To finish it off, they captured the Ladies' Plate at the Henley Royal Regatta on July 4.
Stewart was raised in Brisbane, Queensland and took up rowing as a coxswain in 1964 at the Toowong Rowing Club.Stewart career at Guerin Foster He first made state selection for Queensland in 1970 in the men's senior eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.1970 Interstate Regatta Stewart relocated to Melbourne and joined the Mercantile Rowing Club in 1972. In 1974 he shifted into the lightweight division.
Acting second Coxswain William Davies was awarded the Silver medal and twelve of the crew were awarded the Bronze medal. This was the first time this new medal had been awarded and had been specifically created because of the notable contribution made to this rescue by the crewmen of the Louisa Heartwell. Part of the wreck of the Fernebo remains and can sometimes be seen on Cromer beach at low tide opposite the Doctor's Steps.
In 1919 the Alfred Corry was sold to Lord Albermarle and converted to a yacht, based out of Lowestoft. She was renamed Alba and an engine was added in 1921. In 1949 the boat was renamed Thorfinn. She was being used as a houseboat at Maldon by 1976, at which point she was bought by the great-grandson of the first coxswain and restored as a seaworthy yacht under her original name.
One person was unaccounted for. For their part in the disaster, the Harwich Lifeboat coxswain and crew also received letters of appreciation signed by the chairman of the RNLI. The coxswains of the two pilot boats who had been the first on the scene were awarded the RNLI Bronze Medal. Framed letters of appreciation signed by the RNLI chairman were awarded to the three Masters of the Alexandra Towing Tugs "Sauria", "Alfred" and "Ganges ".
Morris, Jeff (2001) pp.36–37 On 13 January 2008 20 people were saved from the MV Ice Prince – 8 by the lifeboat and 12 by a Coastguard helicopter. They were operating in Force 9 winds and the stricken vessel was leaning at 45˚; the lifeboat had to approach it about 50 times to save those lives. Coxswain Mark Criddle received a silver medal in recognition of his courage, skill and determination.
A member of the Union Boat Club in Whanganui, Crotty was in the winning Union four with Donald Gemmell, Dave Martin and Allan Tong at the New Zealand championships in 1957. The following year he again won the national fours title, this time with Gemmell, Peter Aitchison, Graeme Moran and Richard Tuffin (coxswain), and the same crew went on to represent New Zealand at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, finishing fourth.
He has five sisters, one of whom, Elsa, rowed for Australia's national team and won the World University lightweight sculling Championship in Trakai, Lithuania in 2006. His father, Terry O'Hanlon, is a former Australian representative rowing coxswain, a six time Australian champion who represented twice at World Rowing Championships. His mother Jane, also represented Australia as a member of a national rowing squad. Evan studied landscape architecture at the University of Canberra.
The second coxswain of the Spirit of Lowestoft, Shane Coleman was then put aboard the yacht and helped the remaining people on to the Lowestoft boat. The yacht was then towed to Harwich to complete what had been a long and arduous shout. By the time the Freddie Cooper returned to her station she had been out at sea for 12 hours. The Lowestoft lifeboat finally got back to its berth at 11:30pm.
In 1852, the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariner’s Society placed a lifeboat at Rhyl. Shortly after, in 1853, the lifeboat "Gwylan y Mor", capsized with the loss of six of her crew.A Melancholy Catastrophe 1853 In 1963, Rhyl Lifeboat (Anthony Robert Marshall) was launched on service to the first lifeboat rescue of a hovercraft.The World's first rescue by Lifeboat of a hovercraft For this service, a silver medal for gallantry was awarded to Coxswain Harold Campini.
The enlarged station was necessary to accommodate the new Hester Rothschild. In 1933, a new motorboat was received on station, and was named The Always Ready. After the coxswain of the lifeboat, Robert Patton, died at sea trying to rescue a crippled seaman, the boat was renamed Robert Patton - The Always Ready in 1934. In 1978, the lifeboathouse was closed and the RNLI concentrated on their efforts on the lifeboathouse at Staithes.
One of the RRCs was badly damaged and limped back on hardly any > power. The coxswain steered her by the hospital-ship for a shield and the > boat died on them just as they reached the water's edge. Another sank just > offshore, but close enough for the team to swim to safety ... An SBS > corporal and two SAS troopers were wounded ... The RRCs were riddled with > holes and had to be destroyed.
Kevin John Wickham (21 July 1939 - 4 July 2020) was an Australian rower. He competed as coxswain in the men's eight event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Wickham was raised in Colac, Victoria. He began his career as a cox with the Banks Rowing Club in Melbourne, and progressed to the World Rowing Championships in 1962, where he coxed a four that finished in fifth place. He also competed in the 1964 King’s Cup.
Matee Joseph Molefe is a South African sailor, currently serving as Master at Arms of the South African Navy, the highest enlisted post in the Navy. Malefe was part of the ANC’s armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe before being integrated into the Navy in 1994. He served on the and was appointed Coxswain of the . He was appointed Fleet Master at Arms in 2016 and promoted to Master at Arms of the Navy on 1 February 2018.
Nineteen RNLI lifeboats sailed to Dunkirk between 27 May and 4 June 1940 to assist with the Dunkirk evacuation. Lifeboats from , (RNLB Prudential (ON 697), now Trimilia), and , (), went directly to France with their own crews, Ramsgate's crew collecting 2,800 troops. Both Coxswains, Edward Parker from Margate and Howard Primrose Knight from Ramsgate, were awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for their "gallantry and determination when ferrying troops from the beaches". Margate's Coxswain named as Edward Drake Palmer.
The ironclad only managed to fire three shots that did little damage. Galena was struck six times while passing the fort with little damage, although her rigging was badly cut up. Two crewmen were wounded and another died of his wounds.ORN, vol. 21, pp. 479, 489 Four of Galena's sailors were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions during the battle: Seaman William Gardner, Quartermaster Thomas Jordan, Quartermaster Edward S. Martin, and Coxswain Edward B. Young.
The action for which Samuel Mitchell was awarded the Victoria Cross She took part in the rescue operations when was wrecked in Manukau Harbour, New Zealand and was also grounded but was refloated. She undertook operations during the Invasion of Waikato and the Tauranga Campaign in New Zealand. Her captain, Commander Edward Hay, was killed on 30 April 1864 during the storming of Gate Pā, and his coxswain, Samuel Mitchell, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery.
Between 1989 and 1995, he was Secretary General of the International Rowing Federation. He is currently a board member of the International Rowing Federation and Rowing Australia and Steward of the Henley Royal Regatta. Besides these current positions, he has had a long association with rowing in Australia as a cox, coach, national team manager and state councillor. His club association as a competitor (coxswain) and administrator (club secretary) was with the Sydney University Boat Club.
Men's lightweight coxless four competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 10 to 17 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. This rowing event is a sweep rowing event, meaning that each rower has one oar and rows on only one side. Four rowers crew each boat, and no coxswain is used. As a lightweight rowing event, rowers were limited to a maximum body mass of 72.5 kilograms each and 70 kilograms on average.
At about noon on 6 July 1918 a squadron of five German seaplanes returning from a daylight raid on Lowestoft and Walmer came across on the surface east of Orford Ness. Their machine-gun attack killed the commanding officer and four other men, as well as mortally wounding the coxswain. The steering gear, compasses and radio were all damaged. The first lieutenant, Sub Lieutenant Cobb, attracted the attention of at about 12:45, and a tow was established.
Jack Crocombe, the coxswain of the Louisa, proposed to take the boat by road to Porlock's sheltered harbour, around the coast, and launch it from there. The boat plus its carriage weighed about 10 tons, and transporting it would not be easy. 20 horses and 100 men started by hauling the boat up the 1 in 4 Countisbury Hill out of Lynmouth. Six of the men were sent ahead with picks and shovels to widen the road.
Digby's senior rowing was from the Barwon Rowing Club in Geelong. He commenced as a coxswain and later moved into lightweight rowing. In 1974 he first made Victorian state selection as the cox of the 1974 Victorian youth eight contesting the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. Between 1983 and 1992 he made seven state appearances, all at stroke of the Victorian lightweight coxless four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta.
His teammates at Sydney were Branimir Vujević, Nikša Skelin, Siniša Skelin, Krešimir Čuljak, Tomislav Smoljanović, Tihomir Franković, Igor Francetić and Silvijo Petriško (coxswain). Boraska also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics and at the 2004 Summer Olympics, both time in coxless four discipline. He was a World champion and a medalist at the World Rowing Championships. He was a world record (world's best time) holder, for 20 years, in a coxed pair event set at 1994 World rowing championship.
Simon H. Jefferies (born 11 July 1955) is a British coxswain. He won a gold medal at the 1980 World Rowing Championships in Hazewinkel with the lightweight men's eight. He was the cox for the British men's eight at the 1988 Summer Olympics where they came fourth. He was part of the British eight at the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, the crew finished 9th overall after a third-place finish in the B final.
While at University of California, Berkeley Swaney was the coxswain for the men's rowing team. She first thought she would try competing in bobsleigh as a pilot, but was told she was too small to be competitive in the sport. She then turned to skeleton and freestyle skiing, in which she sought to represent Venezuela, her mother's homeland, at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She started skiing for Hungary in 2015, based on her grandparents' country of birth.
The entire New South Wales winning King's Cup eight of 1972 was selected as the Australian eight to compete at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Clark rowed in the six seat of that boat when they rowed to an eighth place finish in Munich. In 1975 as the Australian champion coxed pair Clark, Michael Crowley and coxswain Terry O'Hanlon were selected to race Australia's coxed pair at the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham. They were eliminated in the repechage.
Pirie completed her first escort run in late May: she escorted two ships from Townsville to Sydney, then joined a convoy of fourteen merchant ships and five other corvettes back to Townsville. The mood of the ship's company continued to deteriorate, and on 8 June, a large number of sailors met in the foremost messdeck. A complaint about the living conditions was made to the coxswain to pass on to Mills, but the commander was uncompassionate.
Alistair James Potts (born 7 July 1971) is a British World Champion cox. Potts was born in Chertsey, Surrey, and educated at Winchester College and the University of Edinburgh (studying architectural history). He coxed the men's four, men's lightweight eight and women's eight at the 1994 Commonwealth Regatta representing Scotland. After going up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge University at the end of 1994, he was winning coxswain in the record-breaking CUWBC crew at the 1995 Women's Boat Race.
Second Battle of the Matanikau River Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro (1919–1942), the only Coast Guardsman to receive the Medal of Honor, earned the decoration posthumously during World War II as a small boat coxswain during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. A Navy destroyer escort, , was named in his honor in 1944. The cutter was commissioned in 1971, and is still on active service. The cutter was commissioned in 2017 and is on active service.
Coxswain Henry Blogg and his crew were recognised for their bravery on the service to Convoy FS559 at an award ceremony held at the Regal Cinema in Hans Place, Cromer. The ceremony was attended by Vice Admiral Sir John Cunningham KCB and a large audience. Ironically the proceedings were interrupted by the lifeboat being called out to service. After a short while it was announced that the call-out had been cancelled and the ceremony continued.
USS Walter B. Cobb was named after Coxswain Walter B. Cobb (1919–1942), who was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for his gallant service in the Battle of Savo Island aboard and . Cobb was a Pearl Harbor Survivor on USS West Virginia (BB-48). He went on to serve on USS Mugford where, on 7 August 1942, he was blown off the ship during a Japanese aerial attack. Uninjured, he was picked up by USS Ralph Talbot.
Rowley Douglas MBE (born 27 January 1977 in Washington, D.C., in the United States) is a coxswain and Rowing (sport) Olympic champion for Great Britain. Douglas won a gold medal in the eight at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as a member of the British rowing team.Profile: Rowley Douglas sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 12 December 2008) In the Olympic final the British crew took an early lead and were only challenged towards the very end of the race.
In 1966, Richard graduated from Montana State University with a B.A. in History. After college, Richard spent three years in the U.S. Army as a Landing Craft Coxswain serving in Virginia and South Vietnam. After his military service, Richard pursued a graduate degree, but economics kept him from completing it while he ran the fly shop in Gardiner. After Merton died in 1970, the fly shop remained with Merton's wife until 1985, when Richard assumed ownership of the business.
Michael O'Gorman (August 16, 1965 – September 2018) was an American coxswain who won 3 world championship medals. He was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Florida, and was then educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He coxed the US lightweight eight at the World Rowing Championships from 1987 to 1992, winning bronze in 1987, silver in 1988, and bronze again in 1991. He subsequently became a coach, including at Vesper Boat Club, Stetson University, and the Chicago Rowing Center.
By now the Hopelyns back was broken and she was beyond any idea of salvage. The crew of the lifeboat were concerned to see that only a small section of the ship was showing above the heavy seas. The crew were also concerned that they could see no sign that the crew were still alive and on board the Hopelyn. Equally coxswain Fleming had no reason to assume that the crew had perished or left the ship.
Coxed four icon Coxed fours at the start at Kingston Regatta A coxed four is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four persons who propel the boat with sweep oars and is steered by a coxswain. The crew consists of four rowers, each having one oar, and a cox. There are two rowers on the stroke side (rower's right hand side) and two on the bow side (rower's lefthand side).
Eight icon Eights at the end of the 2002 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race An eight is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing(crew). It is designed for eight rowers, who propel the boat with sweep oars, and is steered by a coxswain, or "cox". Each of the eight rowers has one oar. There are four rowers on the port side (rower's right hand side) and four on the starboard side (rower's lefthand side).
Cox made his Australian representative debut as coxswain of the Australian U23 eight which competed in the 1985 U23 Trans Tasman series on Lake Ruataniwha in New Zealand. They lost both of their match races against New Zealand. Later that year they contested the 1985 U23 World Rowing Championships in Banyoles, Spain.Cox at World Rowing There, that crew which contained three future world champions (McKay, Cooper & Batten) and the future coaching great Paul Thompson, won a silver medal.
All four crew of CG-36500 were awarded the Coast Guard's Gold Lifesaving Medal (rather than just the coxswain, the typical treatment). At the time of her loss, Pendleton was insured for $1,690,000. The stern ultimately grounded off Monomoy Island, south of Chatham, at coordinates , where it now lies underwater, and the bow grounded on Pollock Rip Shoal. The bow section was sold in 1953 to North American Smelting Co. for recycling at Bordentown, New Jersey.
Lefroy rowed during her high school years. In early 2016, she was invited to trial Australian Para-Rowing LTA Mixed trials. She combined with Brock Ingram, Jeremy McGrath, Kathleen Murdoch and coxswain Jo Burnand in the Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Coxed Four ( LTAMix4+) to win the Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta in April 2016. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Lefroy was a member of the LTA Mixed Coxed Four that finished first in the LTAMix4+ B Final.
He was the manager and the coxswain of that crew. In 1936 he again steered the New South Wales eight to another King's Cup victory. He was in the stern of the 1937 New South Wales eight which placed second at Murray Bridge in South Australia to the South Australian eight in that year's King's Cup. In 1938 he was the coach of the New South Wales eight when they placed second to West Australia in the King's Cup.
Before leaving for this battle, Maturin leaves the twin children with Lady Keith. Dr Jacob learns the corsair has two galleys to act as decoys whilst he lies under Tarifa before running through the Strait. The Surprise, Ringle and the blue cutter lie in wait in the Strait. The galley sees three armed ships, and Murad Reis, her captain, fires on the frigate, destroying one gun, and killing Bonden, the coxswain, as well as Hallam, a midshipman.
The three stars represent the three main areas of U.S. Navy Riverine operations in Vietnam; OPERATION GAME WARDEN, OPERATION MARKET TIME, and OPERATION SEALORDS. To qualify for the Small Craft insignia, a service member must complete full qualifications at every watch station of a small craft. This normally includes positions as engineer, coxswain, gunner, and boat commander. Enlisted personnel must be the Petty Officer in Charge (POIC) of a small craft for six months before they qualify.
Nicolaas "Nico" Hessel Rienks (born 1 February 1962) is a former rower from the Netherlands and two-time Olympic gold medallist. Rienks won the gold medal in the men's double sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics, alongside Ronald Florijn. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he repeated his gold medal performance winning the eight with coxswain event with the Holland Acht (Holland Eight). He also competed at the 1984 and 2000 Olympics but finished outside the podium.
A year later, Clements began his schooling, first at Cheam School, and later at Westminster School. Reportedly an apt pupil, he showed particular interest in geology and astronomy, and from an early age he wrote prolifically, an activity which filled much of his spare time.A. Markham, pp. 5–11. At Westminster, which he found "a wonderful and delightful place", he developed a particular interest in boating, often acting as coxswain in races on the River Thames.
On 18 February 1976 Eamonn Andrews surprised Shrimp Davies with his "Big Red Book". Henry Thomas Davies was made the subject of the ITV programme This is Your Life on the night before Shrimp retired as coxswain. After retiring from the lifeboat in 1976, Shrimp continued to run the family deckchair business on Cromer's east beach where he was a familiar and talkative figure. Henry Davies died in the summer of 2002 at the age of 88.
Most military CRRC's use a two-stroke engine with a pumpjet propulsor, which consists of a shrouded impeller. This design reduces the risk of serious injury to personnel in the water when compared to the traditional open propeller. It also reduces the risk of the propulsion system being seriously damaged by submerged objects. A specially-trained coxswain sits at the stern (rear) of the boat and controls it via the tiller arm, attached to an outboard engine.
His most lasting relationships were with Thomas Herrick—a fellow officer and his oldest friend—and John Allday, a former Cornish shepherd who became Bolitho's coxswain and de facto bodyguard. Bolitho had a number of romances. One of the first was Viola Raymond, the wife of an English diplomat. She died while Bolitho and a small number of his crew were stranded in a boat in the tropics, but it was her courage and sacrifice that rallied the crew.
Thomas Smith (born 1856, date of death unknown) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Born in 1856 in Ireland, Smith emigrated to the United States and joined the Navy from Virginia. By October 1, 1878, he was serving as a seaman on the . On that day, while Enterprise was off the coast of Pará, Brazil, he rescued Coxswain William Kent from drowning.
Before the surf battered the ship to pieces, her 93 crew managed to transfer much of her gear and provisions to the atoll. On 18 November, a party of five men, headed by Lieutenant John G. Talbot, the executive officer, set out for Honolulu in a small boat to get relief for their stranded shipmates. As they neared Kauai, 31 days and some later, their boat was upset by breakers. Only Coxswain William Halford survived to obtain help.
Much of the cost of the new lifeboat was met from a bequest of Miss Margaret R Fraser of Glasgow. As thanks for this donation the lifeboat the RNLI chose Glasgow for the venue of the naming ceremony. The lifeboat arrived at Yorkhill Basin in the city on the 8 June 1986 with a specially selected crew which included three decorated Scottish lifeboatmen and one Englishman. Coxswain Alexander GilchristLifeboat Gallantry - RNLI Medals and how they were won.
Capt. Earle ordered Ensign Charles C. Copp to take a whaleboat, and crew, to pick up the gasoline from Tyron's dock. Though flying the American colors fore and aft, the American sailors were unarmed and unable to speak Spanish. While loading the gasoline, the Americans were surrounded by an armed squad of Zaragoza's soldiers. Two sailors, Coxswain G.H. Siefert and Seaman J.P. Harrington, were still on board the American whaleboat, but they too were taken at gunpoint.
In 1802 Hacking shot and wounded Ann Holmes, his former mistress, for which crime he was sentenced to death but pardoned in 1803. Also in 1803 he was found guilty of stealing naval stores from and again sentenced to death, then reprieved on condition that he was transported to Van Diemen's Land. In 1804 Hacking was appointed coxswain to the lieutenant-governor at Hobart. In July 1806 he was appointed pilot at Hobart at £50 a year.
The Swedish cargo steamer was laden with timber when on 9 January 1917 an explosion in the ship's boiler broke the Fernebo in two. The Cromer Lifeboat Louise Heartwell with coxswain Henry Blogg at the helm had been at sea for several hours in difficult conditions attending the Greek steamer Pyrin. Blogg and his exhausted crew were now asked to attend the Fernebo. The sea conditions were so bad that the lifeboat was unable to clear the beach.
Wittenberg was born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in a large and athletic Irish Catholic family. She was the oldest of seven children, and played softball, baseball and basketball—sports that her father coached. In high school, she focused on cheerleading, and also starred on a champion West Side Rowing Club team. Wittenberg went on to attend Canisius College, and was a coxswain for the men's crew team that won a championship for small colleges.
Alison Ruth M. Norrish (born 19 December 1968) is a female retired British rowing coxswain. Norrish competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She represented England and won a silver medal in the eight and a bronze medal in the coxed four at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was a member of the eight that won the national title rowing for a A.R.A squad at the 1987 National Championships.
Morris, Jeff (2001) pp.12–13 Harry Thomas became coxswain on 1 February 1951 and within a year had been awarded a bronze medal. It was on the evening of 30 January 1952 that he took the lifeboat out into a severe gale to search for the source of a white flashing light in Torbay. After searching for an hour and a half the army tug Trieste which had lost power with eleven men on board.
In some multiple-seat boats seated rowers each pull on a single "sweep" oar, usually with both hands. Boats in which the rowers are coordinated by a coxswain are referred to as a "coxed" pair/four/eight. Sometimes sliding seats are used to enable the rower to use the leg muscles, substantially increasing the power available. An alternative to the sliding seat, called a sliding rigger, uses a stationary seat and the rower moves the oarlocks with his feet.
Günter Bergau (born 11 April 1939) is a retired German rower. He competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the coxed pairs and for East Germany at the 1968 Summer Olympics in eights and finished in seventh place in both events. Bergau won a gold and a silver medal at the European championships in 1964 and 1967. In the doubles his rowing partner was Peter Gorny, whereas his coxswain in all events was Karl-Heinz Danielowski.
He was born in 1943 in Züllichau, at the time located in Germany but since the end of World War II part of Poland. He started rowing in 1958 at age 15 but after two or three years, he became a coxswain instead. At 170 cm, he was tall for a cox but he suppressed hunger by heavy smoking to keep his weight at 55 kg, the minimum weight for that role. He competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo.
Ronald Florijn (born 21 April 1961) is a former rower from the Netherlands and two-time Olympic gold medallist. Florijn won the gold medal in the men's double sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics, alongside Nico Rienks. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he repeated his gold medal performance winning the eight with coxswain event with the Holland Acht (Holland Eight). He also won five medals at the world championships in 1978–1995 in double, four and eight-manned boat races.
Karl-Heinz Danielowski (born 31 March 1940) is a retired German coxswain. He competed for the United Team of Germany at the 1964 Summer Olympics and for East Germany at the 1968 and 1976 Summer Olympics. In 1964 and 1968 he finished in seventh place in the coxed pairs and eights, respectively, whereas in 1976 he won a gold medal in the eight. Danielowski also won two European titles, in 1964 and 1973, and a silver at the 1970 World Rowing Championships.
Igor Nikolayevich Polyakov (, 15 July 1912 – 16 May 2008) was a Russian rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics for the Soviet Union and was the coxswain of the Soviet team that won the silver medal in the eights event. He was also a six-time Soviet champion. After finishing his sporting career, he became a rowing coach and won several awards and received several awards and recognition for his contributions as a coach. He died in Moscow in 2008.
Hryhoriy Mykolayovych Dmytrenko (, born 1 July 1945) is a Ukrainian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics and for Ukraine in the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he was the coxswain of the Soviet boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event. At the 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, he won a silver medal with the eight. Twelve years later he coxed the Ukrainian boat which finished tenth in the 1996 eight competition.
Timothy Sullivan (1835 – October 6, 1910) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Born in 1835 in Ireland, Sullivan immigrated to the United States and was living in New York when he joined the U.S. Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . Acting as a gun captain during battle, Sullivan showed "attention to duty, bravery, and coolness" through various engagements.
Peter Wilson(born October 22, 1952, in Ottawa, Ontario) was a Canadian ski jumper who competed internationally from 1971 to 1976. Peter competed in the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo and 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and the 1972 Planica and 1973 Oberstdorf World Ski Flying Championships, and the 1974 FIS World Nordic Ski Championships in Falun. He also rowed for the Ottawa Rowing Club and won at the Royal Canadian Henley in the 145 lb. fours with (1972) and without coxswain (1973).
The men's eight (M8+) competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 11 to August 17 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park. Seven of nine national teams returned from the men's eight competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics to compete again, joined by the host nation. The 2008 Summer Olympics M8+ rowing competition consisted of eight teams, split into two four-team heats. Each team fielded a boat crewed by eight rowers and a coxswain.
Coxswain Sinclair then manoeuvred the lifeboat five more times into the narrow space between the pier wall and the wreck, despite the lifeboat's starboard propeller being fouled. One crewman was spotted in the sea and although the lifeboat managed to get a line to him he disappeared below and was drowned. The lifeboat continued searching for the remaining crewman of the trawler with floodlights. On the remains of the smashed wheelhouse another crewman was seen desperately holding on to the wreckage.
By chance, he is assigned to Mallory, to their mutual displeasure. They and the rest of Mallory's men are disappointed to be assigned to man the guns of the freighter Sybil Gray. When Myra comes to see her brother off (though she is assigned to the same convoy as a Navy nurse), she encounters Sands, whom she had not seen since the inquiry. On board, Coxswain G. Berringer (Max Baer) recognizes Sands, making him a pariah among the navy sailors.
The "stroke" is the rower closest to the stern of the boat and usually the most competitive rower in the crew. Everyone else follows the stroke's timing - placing their blades in and out of the water at the same time as stroke. The stroke can communicate with the coxswain (when in a stern coxed boat) to give feedback on how the boat feels. During a race, it is the stroke's responsibility to establish the crew's rate (number of strokes per minute) and rhythm.
The bombing continued until Panay sank at 15:54. Storekeeper First Class Charles L. Ensminger, Standard Oil tanker captain Carl H. Carlson and Italian reporter Sandro Sandri were killed, Coxswain Edgar C. Hulsebus died later that night. 43 sailors and five civilians were wounded. Two newsreel cameramen were present on Panay, Norman Alley (Universal News) and Eric Mayell (Movietone News), and were able to take considerable film during the attack and afterward from shore as Panay sank in the middle of the river.
The gunboat departed Shanghai on 10 September 1900 and reached Cavite on the 17th. In the Philippines, she resumed her cooperation with Army forces, still engaged in pacification operations, and continued these duties for the next two years. In between pacification missions, she performed survey work: at Guam in November 1901 and at Dumanquillas Bay, Philippines, in February 1903. In April 1902, Yorktowns Coxswain Joseph Quick rescued a shipmate from drowning while the ship was in port at Yokohama, Japan.
After her arrival, Cecil Paine managed to rescue several more of the crew, but four men decided to stay aboard to try to save the vessel. Cecil Paine, which was now running low on fuel, had to return to her station. Newspaper Article on the Rescue of SS Zor Retrieved 25 February 2013 arrived at the scene to relive her. By the time the lifeboat arrived it was clear to Coxswain West of the Sheringham boat, that the Zor was sinking.
Coxswain Henry Blogg boarded the Monte Nevoso along with the Captain of the tug. The two men tried to persuade Captain Solvatore to allow the tug to pull his ship to safety. It was 4:30 pm before the captain reluctantly agreed to the assistance, mainly due to the fact that the Captain of the tug had spotted a fracture appearing on the deck over the ships bunker and Blogg had warned that the weather was to change for the worse.
The fire reached the powder magazine and another huge explosion ensued. This time many in the water were killed outright; a British boat was sunk and the coxswain of Curtis's boat was killed when hit by debris. Nassau, Littlepage and the surviving crew managed to make their way back to shore. Curtis realised that it was unsafe to be near the flaming batteries and soon withdrew men from two more floating batteries engulfed in flame, then finally ordered a withdrawal.
Benjamin Franklin Baker was born on March 12, 1862 at Dennis Port, Massachusetts. He joined the United States Navy in 1885, and served in the Spanish–American War on board . On May 11, 1898, while serving as a Coxswain, he was one of several men who took part in a boat expedition that cut the underwater telegraph cable off Cienfuegos, Cuba. For his "extraordinary bravery and coolness" under enemy fire during this operation, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Corrie Carter was coxswain for the four- and eight-oared boats of the Cambridge First Trinity Boat Club at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1861. His crew won the four chief races: the Grand Challenge Cup, the Stewards' Challenge Cup, the Ladies' Challenge Plate and the Visitors' Challenge Cup. The feat was commemorated in 1912 by a caricature of Corrie Carter and a biographical article in Vanity Fair. He was also a good shot and golfer as well as an avid fly fisherman.
The ceremony was watched from the cliffs and gangway by hundreds of local people. After the ceremony, in squally weather the lifeboat was launched for a short demonstration where she was tried under sail and oar, with Coxswain Barnes Cooper at the helm and crew of thirty. The Henry Ramey Upcher launched to over 50 services and she worked closely with the lifeboats, William Bennett and J.C. Madge of the RNLI. She remained in service until 1935 and she saved over 200 souls.
Used in international racing. ; Sprint : The last 500 meters of most races are generally at a much higher rating than the rest of the race, as crews pull to exhaustion. ; Flutter/Shunt :In head-to-head races, the coxswain may decide to call a flutter, which is essentially the six-stroke start put into the race close to the end. The flutter may push one boat which is trailing another a few seats ahead, but is extremely demanding on a crew.
The 'Quatre' seniors of the Emulation of Boulogne (Raymond Talleux, Eugène Constant, Louis Gressier and Georges Lecointe, coxswain Marcel Lepan), in June 1924, winner of the Pre-Olympic Regattas. Raymond Émile Julien Talleux (2 March 1901 – 21 March 1982) was a French rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924, he won the silver medal as member of the French boat in the coxed four event. He also finished fourth as part of the French boat in the coxed pair competition.
Ivor Campbell was born in Kirkintilloch, Scotland, on January 11, 1898, and died in Portland, Oregon on September 1, 1971. He was a Canadian rowing coxswain who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics where he won the silver medal as part of the Canadian boat in the men's eight event. His family, native of Scotland, had moved him from his birthplace to Toronto, Canada, at the age of 12. In Toronto, he was educated, obtaining his doctorate in medicine in 1926.
At that point, Leander stopped rowing, and C. F. Beggs and C. W. Kent, the Leander coxswain and stroke respectively, protested to the umpire. When the umpire did not tell Cornell to stop or return to the start, Cornell continued rowing at a leisurely pace, followed by the referee's boat. Cornell finished the course of one mile (1.6 km) and in 8 minutes and 11 seconds. This was more than a minute over the time they were rowing in practice.
While the Royal National Lifeboat Institution awarded a silver medal and £50 to the coxswain who had aided the women in the rescue, and issued a commendation on vellum to Hutchings, it did not officially recognize the sisters' role. The sisters did receive gold brooches from Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the Empress of Germany, for caring for the barque's crew. The women gained international fame when they were featured on the front page illustration of The Graphic in February 1883.
One More Step, Mr. Hands by N.C. Wyeth, 1911, for Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Israel Hands appears as a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island and media based on it, in which he is the Hispaniolas coxswain and one of Long John Silver's pirates. However, he is described as the late Captain Flint's gunner and no mention is made of Blackbeard. Hands engages in a prolonged battle with Jim Hawkins before being shot by the boy.
Batten was born in Tasmania and commenced his rowing career in 1979 as a coxswain with the North Esk Rowing Club in Launceston. He rowed for a season in 1982 with the Tweed Heads Rowing Club prior to moving to Brisbane and joining the Commercial Rowing Club. He was one of the first Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holders in 1985 and held full AIS scholarships from 1985 to 1988. He moved to Melbourne in 1988 and joined the Mercantile Rowing Club.
He then took command of the steamer in the Pacific Squadron, and was promoted to commander on 2 March 1870. On 30 October 1870 the Saginaw was wrecked after running aground on Kure Atoll. The shipwrecked sailors salvaged supplies from the ship, and five men, led by Lieutenant John G. Talbot, set out in a small boat for the Hawaiian Islands some away. Arriving at Kauai after 31 days, the boat overturned in the breakers, and only Coxswain William Halford survived.
He helped transport and fire a naval howitzer throughout the engagement despite heavy Confederate fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor three months later, on June 22, 1865. The medal was issued under the name he had enlisted with, John S. Lann. He was one of six sailors to receive the medal for manning artillery pieces during the battle, the others being Seaman John Mack, Seaman George Pyne, Ordinary Seaman Charles Read, Coxswain George Schutt, and Seaman Thomas Smith.
He helped transport and fire a naval howitzer throughout the engagement despite heavy Confederate fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor three months later, on June 22, 1865. He was one of six sailors to receive the medal for manning artillery pieces during the battle, the others being Landsman John S. Lann, Seaman John Mack, Seaman George Pyne, Ordinary Seaman Charles Read, and Coxswain George Schutt. He was buried at the Mountain Home National Cemetery in Johnson City, Tennessee.interment.
In early 2016, he was invited to trial Australian ara-Rowing LTA Mixed trials. He combined with Jeremy McGrath, Davinia Lefroy, Kathleen Murdoch and coxswain Jo Burnand in the Legs, Trunk and Arms Mixed Coxed Four ( LTAMix4+) to win the Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta in April 2016. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Ingram was a member of the LTA Mixed Coxed Four that finished first in the LTAMix4+ B Final. In 2016, he is a Western Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
In 1960, under coach Ken Blue, DBC crews were invited for the first time to take part in the classic Henley Royal Regatta on the Thames River in England. A team made up of Doug Latimer, Jim Plath, Bob Walker, Bill Thorpe, Roger Taylor, Joe Callanan, Al Arbury, Mike Ernesman, and coxswain Bob Kroll placed second to Harvard in the final. Any account of DBC rowing must include Divie Duffield, the greatest oarsmen in the club's history, who came to DBC from Harvard.
Enlisting in the 30th New York Infantry30th New York VI Roster at Lansingburgh, New York, April 24, 1861, he volunteered for service on gunboat on February 15, 1862. He was appointed coxswain and later received the Medal of Honor for exceptional bravery during an engagement on July 15, 1862 with Confederate ram in the Yazoo River. He was an inspiring example to the crew during Carondelet's unsuccessful attempt to halt the ironclad ram's progress through the Union blockade to the Mississippi River. .
Shrimp Davies had a near-fatal involvement in the famous rescue of the on 26 October 1941. At 8.15 am on that day the Cromer lifeboat H F Bailey, crewed by twelve men including crewman Shrimp Davies and coxswain Henry Blogg, was launched to aid the stricken ship. By 11.35 that morning the life-boat had reached the site, the Hammond Knoll sandbank. Unfortunately by this time three of the English Trader's crew had been swept off the foundering ship to their death.
John Riley (born February 14, 1964 in Marin County, California) is an American rower. Riley began his career at the University of Rhode Island in 1982. Between 1986 and 1995, he raced on ten United States National Championship teams, rowed in two Olympic Games (1988: Seoul, South Korea; 1992: Barcelona, Spain), and participated in the 1990 Goodwill Games. In August 1986, he won the gold medal in the heavyweight fours without coxswain at the World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England.
Rosenberg began coaching while he was still competing. He coached the Vesper Boat Club in Philadelphia, and became the rowing coach at St. Francis College. He was head coach of a number of United States National Rowing teams from 1961 to 1976. He coached the 1964 U.S. Olympic 8 pared shell to a gold medal victory, and also won two gold medals (in Eights and Pairs with Coxswain), a silver medal (in Double Sculls), and a bronze medal (in Four Without Cox).
Captain Charles Sawyer took command of Blanche in January 1795, and captured a small privateer off Saint Lucia on 17 April. Blanche returned to Portsmouth for a refit in late 1795, before sailing to the Mediterranean in December. In 1796 a court martial dismissed Sawyer from his vessel and from the service. Sawyer had lost control of Blanche and the respect of his crew due to his increasingly blatant homosexual relations with two young midshipmen, his coxswain, and another seaman.
From 1854 to 1856 Harrier took part in the Russian War as part of the naval force in the Baltic. She served on the South Atlantic Station before refitting in Portsmouth in 1860. She recommissioned on 29 October 1860 for the Australia Station, where she took part in the New Zealand Wars. Her captain, Commander Edward Hay, was killed on 30 April 1864 during the storming of Gate Pā, and his Coxswain, Samuel Mitchell, was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery.
Jillian Helene Weinkauf Costello (December 1, 1987 – June 24, 2010), better known simply as Jill Costello, was an American athlete and activist against lung cancer. She is best known for leading the California Golden Bears crew as varsity coxswain while fighting against stage IV lung cancer. Costello was an otherwise healthy, 21-year-old non-smoker, when she was diagnosed with cancer. In 2011 she was inducted into both the NCAA Hall of Fame and the UC Berkeley Golden Bears Hall of Fame.
It was now nearly dark and at 5pm the Cromer Lifeboat H.F. Bailey with coxswain Henry Blogg at the helm was launched to rescue Cantabrias crew and passengers. Before the lifeboat arrived fire had spread through the ship. Two boats were lowered and some of the crew and passengers abandoned the ship. Captain Argüelles, his wife and children and the second steward, Joaquin Vallego, remained aboard Cantabria fearing what their fate would be if they surrendering to the insurgents aboard Nadir.
Gardiner was raised in Sydney and took up rowing as a coxswain in 1961 at the Glebe Rowing Club. He coxed a Glebe men's junior four at the 1970 Australian Rowing Championships.1970 Austn C'ships Gardiner relocated to Melbourne and joined the Melbourne University Boat Club in 1977 in an effort to make the Australian lightweight eight. In Melbourne Uni colours he contested and won the national lightweight eight title twice at the Australian Rowing Championships in 1981 and 1985.
Balmforth commenced his rowing as a coxswain at Rose Bay High School in Hobart. His senior rowing was from the Lindisfarne Rowing Club in Hobart. He won a Tasmanian Institute of Sport Scholarship from 1993 to 2003 and was named as the Tasmanian Institute of Sport's Athlete of the Year in 1999 & 2000. Balmforth rowed in Tasmanian representative men's lightweight fours contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships in 1994 and from 1998 to 2002.
At the 1908 European Championships, he won silver in the coxed pair (this time beaten by the Belgians Visser and Molmans) but the coxed four became European champion. In 1909, Del Giudice teamed up with Luigi Ermellini in the coxed pair; G. Mion remained as coxswain. Del Giudice became Italian champion in the coxed pair, the coxed four, and the eight. The 1909 European Rowing Championships were held in Paris and Del Giudice won gold in the coxed pair and the coxed four.
Lifeboatman John Drew was awarded a bronze medal for swimming ashore with a line so that lifejackets could be transferred ashore and the survivors brought off the beach. During the course of an hour he had to swim out to the lifeboat seven times. Then on 6 December the lifeboat was called to the aid of the MV Lyrma after its steering gear had failed in a Force 10 storm. On this occasion it was under the command of Second Coxswain Keith Bower.
Rainer Borkowsky (born 19 October 1942) is a German rowing coxswain who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1956 Summer Olympics. Borkowsky was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1942. At the 1956 European Rowing Championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, he won a gold medal in the coxed pair with rowers Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck and Horst Arndt. The same team went to the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, where they won the silver medal in this boat class.
He cuts the ship's anchor cable, setting her adrift and out of reach of the pirates on shore. After daybreak, he manages to approach the schooner again and board her. Of the two pirates left aboard, only one is still alive: the coxswain, Israel Hands, who agrees to help Jim helm the ship to a safe beach in exchange for medical treatment and brandy. Once the ship approaches the beach, however, Hands attempts to murder Jim, who shoots him in self defense.
However the location of the first lifeboat station on the cliff above Polpeor Cove was not ideal as it made launches a long and precarious operation in rough sea and weather. On 2 January 1866 the lifeboat broke up after it was launched on exercise during a storm. It was pushed on to rocks causing the death of its Coxswain Peter Mitchell and crew members Richard Harris and Nicholas Stevens. As a tribute to the loss, the RNLI gave £130 to the local lifeboat fund.
Uwe Benter (born 1 December 1955) is a German coxswain who competed for West Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1955 and is the younger brother of Lutz Benter (born 1945), also an Olympic rower. He won a gold medal at the 1971 European Rowing Championships in Copenhagen with the coxed four. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he was the cox of the West German boat that won the gold medal in the coxed four event.
However the selector Joe Gould stuck with the selected crew since a number of them including stroke Phil Cayzer, had severe adverse reactions to the vaccinations they'd taken for overseas travel. It was also mentioned that their fundraising responsibilities, some 7,000 pounds, impacted their preparation - the Australian Olympic Federation had only been able to fund four air tickets for the eight.1952 Olympics at Guerin Foster Chessell was the coxswain of that Australian Olympic men's eight who to their credit won the bronze medal in Helsinki.
Elizabeth Ann "Betsy" Beard (born September 16, 1961) is a former American competitive coxswain and Olympic gold medalist. Beard was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1961. She was a member of the American women's eight team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. She was the cox for the American women's eight at World Rowing Championships in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and the team came fourth at the first two competitions, and won silver in 1987.
The skill and daring McCormick showed while rescuing a fellow crewmember, when in command of the USCGC Triumph, earned him the admiration of his peers. McCormick enlisted in 1921, and spent most of his career as a non- commissioned petty officer. Late in his career he was promoted to the ranks of commissioned officers, and retired as a Lieutenant, in 1947. In 1938 McCormick was the coxswain in charge of the motor lifeboat USCGC Triumph, at Point Adams Station, at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Hayman's first Australian representative appearance was in the men's coxed four at the 1993 World Rowing Championships in Roudnice. That crew placed fifth as did Hayman's next representative boat, the coxed four who raced at the 1994 World Championships in Indianapolis. He was then in the stern of the Australian men's senior eight for Tampere 1995.Hayman at World Rowing He was the incumbent senior Australian coxswain coming into the 1996 Olympic year and steered the men's senior eight at Atlanta 1996 to a sixth-place finish.
Emma Constance was launched at 4:38 pm with Coxswain Tom Sinclair at the wheel. When the lifeboat reached the two vessels she hailed the Fairy and asked if all was well and did they needed further assistance. The captain of the Fairy, George Croxford indicated that he would like to stay on his ship for as long as safely possible and so the lifeboat stood by. The Fairy and her towing ship made slow progress and some time later in the evening the towline parted.
Carlson has represented the United States as a coxswain at the 2011, 2014, and 2015 World Championships. His highest finish came in 2015, finishing third in the lightweight eight out of five entries. His crew won the Britannia Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta with Taurus Boat Club;, equalling the record time to the Barrier. At the Head of the Charles, he steered the second iteration of the Women's "Great Eight" and the first to win, beating the U.S. women's eight by 1.2 seconds.
To extract the remaining four men, Coxswain West maneuvered the lifeboat to the exposed port side of the ship, were a rope was hanging over the side. West steered the lifeboat in to the ship's side and held position whilst the crew slid down the rope to safety on the lifeboat. Within ten minutes of the extraction, the ship sank below the waves. For their parts in this rescue, both coxswains, William Cox of Wells and West of Sheringham, were accorded Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
Thoden van Velzen was born on 5 April 1933 in Vlissingen. His father was a coxswain in the merchant navy and teacher at the Rijksnormaalschool in the city of Deventer. His ancestors are Protestant pastors from the neighbourhood of Emden in East- Frisia, which is now part of the German federal state of Low Saxony. In the Second World War he moved together with his parents and siblings to Utrecht because of the German Heer declaring the city of Vlissingen and its surrounds as Sperrgebiet.
The coxswains also provided crews for the Governor's Barge and the naval Officer's boats. The post of government coxswain was held by four people; #Bernard Williams, from 1807 - 1822 #David Smith, from 1822 - 1823 #John von Mangerhouse Weiss, from 1823 - 1826; and #John Cadman, from 1827 - 1845. Cadman was the longest serving of the coxswains. In 1798 he was transported to NSW for horse stealing and in the records of the Muster for Sydney for 1814 is shown as having received an unconditional pardon.
Between 1846 and 1849 the Water Police took over Cadmans following the abolition of the position of Government Coxswain. Thorp, Proudfoot and Tropman believe the southern addition to have been constructed around this time. There is evidence that a dividing wall ran east–west across the room, though whether this was part of the original construction of the addition is not known. A doorway was cut into the southern wall of the 1816 building to provide access though when this was done is also unknown.
Noël Vandernotte (25 December 1923 – 18 June 2020) was a French rowing coxswain who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was the son of Fernand Vandernotte and the nephew of Marcel Vandernotte. In 1936 he won the bronze medal of the French boat in the coxed pairs event as well as in the coxed four competition. He was the youngest male medalist at the 1936 Games, at 12 years and 233 days, and is also the youngest French Olympic medalist of all-time.
1–2, 8 Rowing in eights (boats with eight oarsmen, each pulling one oar, and steered by a coxswain) began at Eton, where there is a record of the school owning three eights by 1811, and then progressed to Oxford. The first record of an inter-college race, between eights from Jesus College and Brasenose College, dates from 1815.Sherwood, p. 8 These may have been the only two colleges who had boats racing at that time, and the Brasenose boat was usually victorious.
All this is done while keeping the CGOC updated of their actions, and possibly being supported by lifeboats or a rescue helicopter. Each rescue resource is able to relay information about any casualty to each other and to the CGOC who retains overall coordination. The coxswain of a lifeboats and the SAR helicopter pilot would be in command of that rescue asset, whilst being coordinated by the CGOC. The rescue resources work together with the CGOC as the coordinating authority to carry out SAR response.
John Joseph Francis Mulcahy (July 20, 1876 – November 19, 1942) was the winner of the 1904 Olympic double scull event with his partner William Varley. The duo also won the silver medal in the pair without coxswain event. Mulcahy was one of the most accomplished rowers to come from the New York City area and served as president of the Atalanta Boat Club (established in 1848) on New York City's Harlem River. He graduated from Fordham University in 1894 and established Fordham's first rowing team in 1915.
The novel was made into the film The Cruel Sea in 1953, directed by Charles Frend and starring Jack Hawkins as Commander Ericson and Donald Sinden as Lockhart. BBC Radio 4 has produced two radio adaptations of the book. In September 1980, a two-hour dramatised version starred Richard Pasco as Ericson and Michael N. Harbour as Lockhart, and with Terry Molloy as the coxswain of Saltash. Recording took place with the assistance of the captain and ship's company of and the captain of .
At the 1977 East German national championships, Rothe won the coxed four title alongside Bärbel Bendiks, Marion Rohs, Ilona Richter, and coxswain Marina Wilke. That team went to the 1977 World Rowing Championships on the Bosbaan rowing lake in the Netherlands where they became world champions. In February 1978, she was given two sports awards: Master of Sport and Honored Master of Sports. At the 1978 East German national championships, Rothe came third with the coxed four and took out the national title with the women's eight.
At the 1977 East German national championships, Bendiks won the coxed four title alongside Marion Rohs, Katja Rothe, Ilona Richter, and coxswain Marina Wilke. That team went to the 1977 World Rowing Championships on the Bosbaan rowing lake in the Netherlands where they became world champions. In February 1978, she was given two sports awards: Master of Sport and Honoured Master of Sports. At the 1978 East German national championships, Bendiks came third with the coxed four and took out the national title with the women's eight.
Coxed pair icon Daniel Lyons and Robert Espeseth of the US Olympic team competing in the 1988 Olympic Games A coxed pair is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat with sweep oars and is steered by a coxswain. The crew consists of two rowers, each having one oar, and a cox. One rower is on the stroke side (rower's right hand side) and other is on the bow side (rower's lefthand side).
In 1975 having won the Australian coxed pair championship, O'Hanlon, John Clark and Michael Crowley were selected to row Australia's coxed pair at the 1975 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham. They were eliminated in the repechage.1975 World C'ships By 1977 Stuart Carter was the incumbent coxswain for the Australian and New South Wales eights. Virtually the entire New South Wales King's Cup eight was selected to represent Australia at the 1977 World Rowing Championships but Carter was unavailable and O'Hanlon stepped into the coxswain's seat.
George Schutt (1833 - unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Natural Bridge. Born in 1833 in Ireland, Schutt joined the U.S. Navy from the state of New York. By March 5, 1865, he was serving as a coxswain on the . On that day and the next, he accompanied a Union Army force during the Battle of Natural Bridge near St. Marks, Florida.
Brigitte Amm is a retired East German rower who won one gold and four silver medals at European championships between 1961 and 1966. At the 1961 East German national championships she became national champion with the women's eight. The women's eight, made up solely of rowers from SCW DHfK Leipzig, was sent to the 1961 European Rowing Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where they won silver. In December 1961, seven of the eight rowers were given a Master of Sport award (Gisela Schirmer and their coxswain missed out).
The coxswain typically wears a headband- mounted microphone, which is attached by a wire and quick release to the amplifier. Some units allow a walkie-talkie connection to the coach so they can use the amplification to speak directly to the crew as well. Rowing shells fitted with speed measuring impellers or GPS can report boat speed to the amplifier display, typically measured in Meters/second or 500 meters predicted split time. GPS speed measurement is presently only on Coxmate SCT and SX units.
Single, and double sculls are usually steered by the scullers pulling harder on one side or the other. In other boats, there is a rudder, controlled by the coxswain, if present, or by one of the crew. In the latter case, the rudder cable is attached to the toe of one of his shoes which can pivot about the ball of the foot, moving the cable left or right. The bowman may steer since he has the best vision when looking over his shoulder.
The Club regularly attends races throughout the United Kingdom, including Pairs Head, Fours Head, Eights Head, BUCS fours and eights, BUCS Regatta, Marlow Regatta and Henley. Notable former members include Oxford University Boat Club member and Boat Race winner Ben Ellison, Olympian Tom Solesbury, and Team GB para-rowing coxswain Oliver James MBE. The club was known internationally for the nude wall calendars produced by its members, first as 'Warwick Rowers' later as 'Worldwide Roar'. However, the club and the calendar are no longer affiliated.
Bush and Hornblower were sent to Paris to stand trial for breaking the rules of war. Assisted by Brown, the Captain's Coxswain, they managed to escape, and after lying low for several months, escape downriver to Nantes, re-capturing the British prize Witch of Endor, and sailing out to the British fleet. As a result of this action Bush was promoted to Commander, and sentenced to death in absentia by a French court. He was given a shore appointment at the dockyard at Sheerness.
MCA Teams (MCATs) specialize in the maritime environment – from Economic Exclusion Zones, to fisheries, to port and harbor operations and harbor/channel maintenance and reconstruction. MCATs are generally five-person teams consisting of a commander (usually a junior officer), coxswain, corpsman, communicator, and a construction rating Sailor. MCAST also seeks Sailors with unique cultural expertise, such as native speakers, for missions where cultural exchange is necessary for success. MCATs liaison between an operational commander, U.S. country team, and host nation civil and military entities.
Despite intense Confederate artillery fire, Leland and fellow sailor Coxswain Thomas Irving rowed a small boat trailing a hawser from Lehigh to another Union ironclad, the . Both times, the cable snapped due to friction and hostile fire. Officers were about to give an "abandon ship" order when three more sailors, Landsman Frank S. Gile, Landsman William Williams, and Seaman Horatio Nelson Young, volunteered to make one more attempt. This last effort was successful and Nahant was able to tow Lehigh off the sandbar to safety.
David Palfreyman's commenced his association with the Mercantile Rowing Club in Melbourne as a coxswain at aged thirteen coaching veteran crews. He is the grandson of Cecil McVilly, a sculler who in 1912 was the first rower to represent Australia at an Olympic games.McV-P pin at Hear The Boat Sing He first made state selection for Victoria coxing the 1960 state lightweight four contesting the Penrith Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He coxed another Victorian crew who won the Penrith Cup in 1962.
With Abernethy as coxswain their first boat reached a coastal island, Possession Island, but they did not reach the Antarctic mainland. Onward, they crossed the latitude of Weddel's record of furthest south and landed on Franklin Island. Soon, in the distance, they spotted what McCormick described as "a stupendous volcanic mountain in a high state of activity" and, getting closer, "a dense column of black smoke, intermingled with flashes of red flame". Hooker wrote of "a sight so surpassing everything that can be imagined".
The Lucy Lavers arrived in Aldeburgh in 1940 and was almost immediately commandeered, along with Aldeburghs No:1 station lifeboat by the Royal Navy. She was summoned to Dover and arrived at the port on 31 May. She was needed, along with 17 other RNLI lifeboats, to help in the Dunkirk evacuation, the removal of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from Dunkirk. At Dover small Royal Navy crews with a small number of RNLI coxswain towed the lifeboats to the French coast.
Lieutenant Commander Sean Ramsey is a former member of the Royal Navy who served as the leader of the Immunes and was the self-appointed commander of the former Royal Navy HMS Achilles. In S02E05, Ramsey tells Niels Sørensen that he was submarine's coxswain, a position that is usually held by a senior chief petty officer, prior to the pandemic killing the rest of the crew. He is presumably dead after HMS Achilles sank with him aboard. He is portrayed by Brían F. O'Byrne.
One, LCA 125, dropped its kedge anchor just prior to beaching, but the anchor line played out and ran off the drum. Troops in the landing craft opened fire on German troops gathering by the top of the cliff. With all the craft beached at once, and enemy fire causing considerable confusion on the beach, some LCAs left over-crowded, whilst others left half-empty. The coxswain of LCA 125 was able to reverse his engines quickly and prevent the craft from being stranded.
After the eleventh crewman was rescued using the breeches buoy the stricken steamer rolled over and began to sink. The last five remaining crew scrambled on to the stern and as the steamer slipped below the waves they scrambled on to a raft and were picked up by the lifeboat shortly after. The sixteen rescued French seaman were landed at Great Yarmouth by the Henry Blogg. In recognition of their efforts Coxswain Henry Davies and his crew were presented with awards by the French government.
The third barge, from London, was riding on anchor near Sizewell Bank. She also refused help and so the Abdy Beauclerk returned to the Grecian, and this time took two crewman off to safety. By this time the lifeboat had been out for a long time and it was too late to get back to Aldeburgh so she headed to Lowestoft arriving at 1:15 pm. For his part in the rescue the coxswain of the lifeboat, George Chatten received an RNLI Bronze medal.
That success qualified them for the 1905 European Rowing Championships in Ghent where they won silver, beaten by the team from Belgium. In the 1906 season, Del Giudice rowed in a coxed pair with Olgeni and coxswain Giuseppe Mion. They became Italian champions and then beat the famous Belgian pair of Guillaume Visser and Urbain Molmans to take the 1906 European title in Pallanza. In 1908, Del Giudice became Italian champion in both the coxed pair (again with Olgeni and cox Mion) and the coxed four.
In the meantime the stern section had drifted North West and was spotted off Cromer. Position of the two halves of the SS Georgia Henry Blogg, coxswain of the Cromer lifeboat H F Bailey, attending to the stern reported at 3.15 p.m. that the ship had been abandoned although at this time they were unaware that the ship was in two halves as the stern was creeping higher into the air. The Cromer lifeboat attended the stern section all that night warning shipping of the danger.
Although all the crew were taken off to the shore by Her Majesty's Coastguard, at one point it looked as though this would not be possible and the lifeboat crew worked hard in difficult conditions to get alongside the stricken vessel. This work saw Richard Harris receive his fourth bronze medal, and coxswain Harold a silver medal.Morris, Jeff (2001) pp.31–32 The wooden ILB put to sea on 5 October 1973 in response to a report of a woman in the water during a storm.
Vaughan Bollen is an Australian former lightweight rower. He is from a prominent South Australian rowing family, was a seven-time Australian national champion and won a bronze medal at the 1978 World Rowing Championships. He competed over an eighteen-year period in events at the annual Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships firstly as a South Australian King's Cup coxswain from 1961, then as a South Australian Presidents Cup rower from 1967 and finally till 1979, as a Victorian state representative President's Cup rower.
Lifeboat house built on St Julians Emplacement in 1946. In 1952 the Flying Christine, an ex seaplane tender was brought into service by St John Ambulance as an ambulance boat, to work closely with the RNLI. RNLI Gold Medal and Norwegian Lifeboat Service Gold Medal awarded to Hubert Petit for rescue crew of 9 from Johann Collett in 1963. In 1977 maroons were replaced by ‘bleepers’, which were followed in 1983 with pagers. In 1978 Coxswain John Petit was awarded a silver medal and the ‘Maud Smith’ award for the bravest act of lifesaving that year following the rescue from the oil rig Orion. RNLI Gold Medal awarded to Coxwain Michael Scales for the rescue of 29 from Bonita in December 1981 as well as the ‘Maude Smith’ Award for the bravest act of lifesaving that year. In 1992 Coxswain Peter Bisson received a silver medal for the rescue from the yacht Sena Siorra and the ‘Maude Smith’ Award for the bravest act of lifesaving that year. From 2015, the Guernsey Joint Emergency Services Control Centre handles all 999 emergency calls including radio Mayday, Pan-pan and Sécurité messages.
A member of the Otago Rowing Club, Brough was described as "powerfully muscled". He was selected in the New Zealand eight for the 1928 Olympic Games, but they did not travel because of insufficient funds. He represented New Zealand at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, and was a member of the coxed four, which included Jack Macdonald, Ben Waters, Bert Sandos, and Arthur Eastwood (coxswain), that won the gold medal. He also stroked the eight that won the silver medal, three-quarters of a boat length behind the victorious English crew.
He was commissioned a captain in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on November 24, 1925. Appleby was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Representative-elect T. Frank Appleby, and served from November 3, 1925, to March 3, 1927, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1926. During World War II, Appleby served in the United States Coast Guard, being discharged in September 1945 as a coxswain. He retired to Hallandale, Florida, and died in Miami, Florida, January 12, 1964.
André Giriat (20 August 1905 – 11 July 1967) was a French rower. He had his best achievements in coxed pairs, together with Anselme Brusa and coxswain Pierre Brunet, winning the national title in 1927 and 1931, the European title in 1931, and an Olympic bronze medal in 1932. He then rowed double sculls with Robert Jacquet, winning a European bronze medal in 1935 and finishing fourth at the 1936 Olympics. Giriat won 10 French Championships: in the single scull (1925), coxed pair (1927, 1931), double scull (1935–37, 1939 and 1945) and eight (1942–43).
The Ralph Glister Award is a monetary award made for the most meritorious service in each year and was inaugurated in 1968. The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award is given annually for the most outstanding service by an Atlantic 21 (and successors) lifeboat crew. Established in 1986 as the Walter Groombridge Award in memory of Brighton Lifeboat Station's Administration Officer it was renamed in memory of his wife who died in 1989. The most decorated lifeboatman was Henry Blogg, coxswain of for 37 years, with three gold medals and four silver.
The crew both stand on the coxswain flat, protected by the superstructure on the bow and stern. The boat's appearance has caused many to comment that it looks like a "Nike Tennis Shoe". Since 1997 the introduction of the faster 47' MLB and the phasing out of the 44' MLBs made the 30 footers obsolete. The class of vessels underwent an overhaul in the early nineties to extend their life until the newer and faster 47' motor lifeboats came into service, and in the late 1990s most of the 30 footers were de-commissioned.
He was a member of the Committee of 51 which enforced the boycott of British goods up to the American Revolution. He was also a shareholder in the Tontine Coffee House, was one of the original 12 members of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and served as Vice Counsel to China.Morris, Ira. K. Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York, Volume 2, pgs. 412-414 Captain Randall served as coxswain for the boat that carried George Washington from Elizabethtown, New Jersey to Lower Manhattan for his first inauguration. Chapin,pg.
Robert B. Wood (1836 – July 1, 1878) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Suffolk. Born in 1836 in New Garden, Ohio, Wood was still living in that city when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . During the Battle of Suffolk on April 14, 1863, he was temporarily assigned to the as it conducted operations on the Nansemond River in Virginia.
The East Coast Rowing Council is the regional organisation of the Irish Coastal Rowing Federation on Ireland's East coast, representing the sport of Coastal and ocean rowing. As per local tradition, coastal rowing is undertaken by crews of four with one sweep oar each, and a coxswain, in wooden clinker- built boats. Formed in 1936, the ECRC has the task of formalising the rules, organising regatta dates and judging any disputes between members. Rules were laid down as to sizes and weights of skiffs to make races fairer.
U-48 was a member of two wolfpacks. Seven former members of the boat's crew earned the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during their military career: these were the commanders Herbert Schultze, Hans-Rudolf Rösing and Heinrich Bleichrodt, the first watch officer Reinhard Suhren, the second watch Otto Ites, the chief engineer Erich Zürn and the coxswain Horst Hofmann. U-48 survived most of the war and was scuttled by her own crew on 3 May 1945 off Neustadt in order to keep the submarine out of the hands of the advancing allies.
Such heroism enhances > the highest traditions of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in whose > service they gave their lives. Coxswain Trevelyan Richards was posthumously awarded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's gold medal, while the remainder of the crew were all posthumously awarded bronze medals. The station itself was awarded a gold medal service plaque. The disaster prompted a massive public appeal for the benefit of the village of Mousehole which raised over £3 million (equivalent to £ in ), although there was an outcry when the government tried to tax the donations.
Within a day of the disaster enough people from Mousehole had volunteered to form a new lifeboat crew. In 1983 a new lifeboat station (still known as 'Penlee') was opened nearby at Newlyn where a faster, larger boat could be kept moored afloat in the harbour. Neil Brockman later became the coxswain of the station's lifeboat. The old boathouse at Penlee Point with its slipway is kept the same as it was when the lifeboat launched and a memorial garden was created beside it in 1985 to commemorate the crew of the Solomon Browne.
Alexander Haure Turvelin (born 1847, date of death unknown) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Born in 1847 in Russia, Turvelin immigrated to the United States and by February 1881 was serving as a seaman on the . Sometime during that month, while Trenton was at Toulon, France, Coxswain Augustus Ohlensen fell overboard and, because he could not swim, began to sink. Turvelin and another sailor, Ordinary Seaman John Davis, jumped into the water and rescued Ohlensen from drowning.
The Vancouver Sun newspaper published an article about the crew: "Oar deep in lily pads, the crew of the Burnaby Lake Aquatic Club starts looking into open water. That's 18-year-old coxswain Bill Wheaton looking forlornly over his shoulder as Daryl Sturdy, Max Wieczorek, Roger Jackson and Bob Stubbs heave to in an effort to escape the green jungle." Ken Oakes, a Vancouver Sun photographer, took a picture of the crew out in the lily pads. The photo and story were featured in newspapers across the country, in the magazines Life and Paris Match.
Edward B. Young (1835 – February 24, 1867) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Born in 1835 in Bergen, New Jersey, Young joined the Navy from that city. He served in the Civil War as a coxswain on the . During the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, he displayed "skill and courage" as his ship assisted the disabled while under heavy fire.
De Wit competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with the men's coxed four where they came fourth. The same team also competed as a coxed four, with Gerard Hallie as coxswain, and they were eliminated in round one. Four of the five coxed four members remained together and won silver at the 1937 European Rowing Championships in Amsterdam. De Wit was also a successful sailor, and was Chef d'équipe of the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team at the 1952 Summer Olympics as well as the country's flag bearer.
Terrington was born in 1946, the elder son of Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington and Lady Davidema Katharine Cynthia Mary Millicent Bulwer-Lytton, a daughter of Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton. He was educated at Winchester College and Guy's Hospital Medical School. Throughout his academic career he was an avid coxswain, steering Winchester College, University of London and Leander Club crews. Terrington became a urological surgeon in 1970. He was senior registrar at the Institute of Urology from 1977-1981 and senior lecturer from 1981 until 1997.
Stuart Carter (born 31 October 1958) is an Australian former rowing coxswain. He was a ten-time national champion and a representative at world championships and Olympics. In 1976 still aged seventeen and in his final year of school, he coxed Sydney Rowing Club crews to three state titles in a pair, four and eight and to two national titles in a pair and a four; coxed the New South Wales representative eight to a King's Cup victory; and coxed the Australian men's eight at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
That year he rowed in the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in England. The following year he was part of the crew that defeated Harvard, Pennsylvania and Columbia at Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship regatta in Poughkeepsie, New York. In his senior year Colson was coxswain of the crew which defeated Yale and Harvard at Poughkeepsie on June 24, 1897 and Pennsylvania and Columbia on the same course less than two weeks later. Colson was elected to the Sphinx Head Society, Cornell's oldest senior honor society.
Oliver Albert O'Brien (1839 – October 1, 1894) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the capture of a blockade runner. Born in 1839 in Boston, O'Brien was still living in that city when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . On November 28, 1864, he was involved in the capture of the blockade runner Beatrice off Sullivan's Island in Charleston Harbor.
Thomas Kendrick (born 1839, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Born in 1839 in Bath, Maine, Kendrick was still living in that city when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . He volunteered to join the for the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, during which he showed "courageous devotion to duty".
For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later, on December 31, 1864. Kendrick's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > Served as coxswain on board the U.S.S. Oneida in the engagement at Mobile > Bay, 5 August 1864. Volunteering for the Mobile Bay action from Bienville, > Kendrick displayed courageous devotion to duty, and his excellent conduct > throughout the battle which resulted in the capture of the rebel ram > Tennessee and in the damaging of Fort Morgan, attracted the attention of the > commanding officer and those serving around him.
The decade of the 1950s kept the Foresters Centenary busy as coastal maritime traffic began to return to pre-war levels. On average the lifeboat was launched three time a year. On 31 December 1950 the lifeboat was launched to the Dutch motor vessel Johanne TeVelde which had been showing distress signals following engine trouble and had become lost in fog. Second Coxswain Henry 'Downtide' West went aboard and showed the captain where he was on his charts and following the repair of the engines she set of on her way.
The 12 man crew were rescued by the Aith lifeboat, the coxswain being awarded the RNLI silver medal for this rescue. Another shipwreck occurred on 9 December 1977 when the Aberdeen trawler Elinor Viking A278, skipper Alec Flett, foundered on the Ve Skerries. The Aith Lifeboat came to the scene but was unable to get near enough to rescue the crew because of the sea conditions. At the request of Alec Webster, Coastguard Station Officer, Lerwick, a volunteer crew in a British Airways Sikorsky S61N helicopter from Sumburgh Airport was scrambled.
Austria was proving unable to defend its possessions in northern Italy, despite the subsidies the British government was paying to support the Austrian army. Britain, unable to deploy major forces on the European continent, used its commercial power to bolster the land armies of allies like Austria and Spain against the French for over a decade. Ramage decides to go through with the rescue. He takes the captain's gig with several topmen and the former Captain's coxswain, Jackson, with him and sends the other surviving sailors to Bastia.
The post of Government Coxswain had been abolished in 1846. Cadman's Cottage was now also separated from the landlocked dockyard and was handed over to the Water Police. New stores were built at south-east corner of (Lower) George Street and Argyle Street and the boundary wall rebuilt. During the 1860s and 1870s additional stores were built at the north end of site and some other buildings constructed around Commissariat Stores and in yards. Between the 1860s and 1890s the Ordnance Store continued in use for ordnance, military and Commissariat offices and stores.
The storm prevented a launch from the harbour so the Coxswain, Jack Crowcombe, proposed that the lifeboat be taken overland to Porlock Weir so that it could be launched there instead. This would entail a journey of and a climb of . Louisa was long and weighed 10 tons on its carriage. Six men were sent ahead to widen some parts of the road that were too narrow while about 100 people, helped by 18 horses from Lynton, hauled the boat up the 1 in 4 (25%) Countisbury Hill.
The Cromer lifeboat had been alerted to the unfolding disaster out on Haisbro Sands at 8:00 am on 6 August. The Cromer Number 1 boat H F Bailey put out at once with Coxswain Henry Blogg"Henry Blogg, the Greatest of the Lifeboatmen", Jolly, C., Pub: Poppyland Publishing, new edition 2002, in command. The lifeboat arrived at Haisborough Sands at 9:40 am. Above the lifeboat the crew of H F Bailey could hear the slow drone of RAF aircraft sent to patrol above the stricken convoy.
Róbert Zimonyi (18 April 1918 – 2 February 2004) was a Hungarian-born American rowing coxswain. He competed for Hungary in various events at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and won a bronze medal in coxed pairs. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he moved to the United States and became an American citizen in 1962.Stowe, 25 With American teams, he won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and a European bronze medal in 1965, both in the eights, and a gold medal at the 1967 Pan American Games in coxed fours.
Varsity rowing regatta, 'fours with coxswain', 1938 Following the Olympics De Jong returned to Leiden, where he studied the law. In the spring he again competed at the 'Varsity' regatta of 1937, now racing a distance of 2000 meters due to the race being held at Bosbaan. In 1937-1938 he was president of the student union in Leiden. During the hazing initiation of incoming plebes of his student corps, De Jonge threw a soup tureen at a group of new students, striking Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema in the head and cutting his scalp.
The Courtney-coached crew continued to build on their lead while Harvard sputtered and fell well behind Yale. Throughout the race, Cornell's coxswain, Freddie Colson, motivated his teammates by reminding them of what their critic had said about them before the race. About a half-mile from the finish, Yale tried to make a move but it was too late—Cornell won by 3 lengths. The victory was not only seen as Cornell dominance in American college rowing, but the superiority of America and the American stroke over the English stroke.
Nizer "attributed his later fame as an orator and toastmaster to the lessons he learned as a socialist soapbox speaker." He won a government citation for his patriotic speeches during Broadway show intermissions for Liberty Bond drives during World War I. He was a graduate of Columbia College, where he was coxswain for the rowing team, and played on the handball team. He joined the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, and twice won the George William Curtis Prize for excellence in the public English orations as an undergraduate. He was later graduated from Columbia Law School.Encyclopedia.
For the 1978 World Rowing Championships on Lake Karapiro in New Zealand, an East German team was formed to which rowers from the winning and vice-champion boats of the GDR championships belonged. Matthias Schumann, Ulrich Karnatz, Gerd Sredzki, Andreas Ebert, Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich, Harald Jährling, Uwe Dühring, Bernd Höing and coxswain Kaiser were victorious in New Zealand, with West Germany and New Zealand winning the other medals. At the GDR championships in 1981 and 1982, Kaiser coxed the third-placed eight. In 1983 he won his third GDR championship title in this boat class.
Lebbeus Simkins (1836 – September 10, 1884) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Born in 1836 in Utica, New York, Simkins was still living in that state when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, he "performed his duties with skill and courage" despite heavy fire.
Alexander H. Truett (1833–1898) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Born on July 4, 1833, in Baltimore, Maryland, Truett was still living in that city when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, he "performed his duties with skill and courage" despite heavy fire.
As a freshman at Cornell University in 1957, Spero was unaware of the competitive sport of rowing. He was in the Cornell freshman eight that won the 1958 Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Championship under coach Carl F. Ullrich. During his next three years on the varsity squad under the fabled Cornell coach R. H. (Stork) Sanford, Spero was a member of two more championship crews. His first international competition came at the World 1961 Maccabiah Games, when he won a gold medal in the coxed four, along with coxswain and coach Allen Rosenberg.. maccabiusa.
The women's eight, made up solely of rowers from SCW DHfK Leipzig, was sent to the 1961 European Rowing Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where they won silver. In December 1961, seven of the eight rowers were given a Master of Sport award (Gisela Schirmer and their coxswain missed out). The 1962 East German national championships were held on the Grünau Regatta Course and Reichel defended both her titles. The 1962 European Rowing Championships were held at the same venue a month later and Reichel was again part of the women's eight that came second.
Solomon Holbourn of Broadstairs, coxswain of the Mary White, had an aunt, Sophia, who married William Stevenson at Folkestone in 1813. Their eldest son, also William, became a mariner and boatman and in 1839 married Elizabeth Wellard at St Peter's, Broadstairs. In 1848 they had a son, again named William, who in adult life was better known as Bill "Floaty" Stevenson, and became a member of the Frances Forbes Barton lifeboat crew. The "Frances Forbes Barton" was originally, in 1897, the legacy of a Miss Webster to the boatmen of Broadstairs.
The vessel sank in the Irish sea about west of South Stack, Anglesey on 25 May 2018 whilst being towed to a new location in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. The Holyhead coastguard attended but were unable to prevent the sinking, the coxswain commenting "It was very sad to see such a lovely vessel sink like that, but no-one was endangered and the lack of fuel on board meant there were no environmental issues". In June 2018, a investigation by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency over the sinking of the barge took place.
Harding also unsuccessfully challenged Stanbury for the World Title in 1896. In the spring of 1901, Spencer Gollan, along with two professional oarsmen, George Towns and Sullivan, broke the record for rowing between Oxford and Putney along the River Thames. The distance was 104 miles and they managed to cover the distance in 13 hours 55 minutes, beating the previous record (set in 1889) by eight and a half hours. The trio had a strong stream and all the locks were in their favour, and they did not carry a coxswain.
Leigh Heyman is the former Director of New Media Technologies for the Obama White House, where he served from 2011 to 2015, and a retired U.S. National Team coxswain. Prior to serving in the Obama administration, Heyman ran the technology infrastructure for Blue State Digital, a digital political consulting firm for Democratic clients, including the Democratic National Committee and the Barack Obama presidential campaign. At MySQLConf 09, Heyman stated that his team managed the technology platform for the winning campaign. In 2011, he joined the White House digital team.
The luzzu departed Marfa in calm seas, and the trip proceeded uneventfully until the boat passed the island of Comino. At this point, the seas became rougher due to the wind direction, and the coxswain told the passengers that it would be better to head to the bay of Ħondoq ir-Rummien than the harbour of Mġarr. However, the passengers disagreed and insisted on going directly to Mġarr. As the boat was being battered by the waves, one of the passengers, M.U.S.E.U.M. member Leli Camilleri, invited them to pray the rosary.
In the late 1930s, James worked alongside Sonny Boy Williamson II. During World War II, James joined the United States Navy, was promoted to coxswain and took part in the invasion of Guam. Upon his discharge, he returned to central Mississippi and settled in the town of Canton with his adopted brother Robert Holston. Working in Holston's electrical shop, he devised his unique electric sound, using parts from the shop and an unusual placement of two DeArmond pickups. Around this time James learned that he had a serious heart condition.
Thomas Taylor (born 1834, date of death unknown) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Born in 1834 in Bangor, Maine, Taylor was still living in that city when he joined the Navy. He served during the Civil War as a coxswain on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, he "encouraged the men of the forward pivot gun when the officer in command displayed cowardice".
He helped transport and fire a naval howitzer throughout the engagement despite heavy Confederate fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor three months later, on June 22, 1865. He was one of six sailors to receive the medal for manning artillery pieces during the battle, the others being Landsman John S. Lann, Seaman John Mack, Seaman George Pyne, Coxswain George Schutt, and Seaman Thomas Smith. Read's official Medal of Honor citation is as follows: > As seaman on board the U.S.S. Magnolia, St. Marks, Fla.
Although wounded, he helped transport and fire a naval howitzer throughout the engagement under heavy Confederate fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor three months later, on June 22, 1865. He was one of six sailors to receive the medal for manning artillery pieces during the battle, the others being Landsman John S. Lann, Seaman John Mack, Ordinary Seaman Charles Read, Coxswain George Schutt, and Seaman Thomas Smith. Pyne's official Medal of Honor citation is as follows: > As seaman on board the U.S.S. Magnolia, St. Marks, Fla.
He helped transport and fire a naval howitzer throughout the engagement despite heavy Confederate fire. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor three months later, on June 22, 1865. He was one of six sailors to receive the medal for manning artillery pieces during the battle, the others being Landsman John S. Lann, Seaman John Mack, Seaman George Pyne, Ordinary Seaman Charles Read, and Seaman Thomas Smith. Schutt's official Medal of Honor citation reads: > As coxswain on board the U.S.S. Hendrick Hudson, St. Marks, Fla.
François Brandt (29 December 1874 – 4 July 1949) was a Dutch rower who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Brandt was part of the Dutch eight team that won a bronze medal with Hermanus Brockmann as the coxswain. Brockmann also steered the boat of Brandt and Roelof Klein in the coxed pairs semifinal, which they lost to France. The pair realized that the 60 kg weight of Brockmann puts them in disadvantage; they replaced him with a local boy of 33 kg and won the final narrowly beating the French team.
Roelof Klein (7 June 1877 – 13 February 1960) was a Dutch rower who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Klein was part of the Dutch eight team that won a bronze medal with Hermanus Brockmann as the coxswain. Brockmann also steered the boat of Klein and François Brandt in the coxed pairs semifinal, which they lost to France. The pair realized that the 60 kg weight of Brockmann puts them in disadvantage; they replaced him with a local boy of 33 kg and won the final narrowly beating the French team.
Hermanus "Herman" Gerardus Brockmann (14 June 1871 in Amsterdam – 18 January 1936 in The Hague) was a Dutch coxswain who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Dutch boats Minerva Amsterdam, which won the gold medal in the coxed pairs, the silver medal in the coxed fours and the bronze medal in the eights. He also competed in the semi-final of the coxed pairs competition. However, his 60 kg weight was seen as a considerable disadvantage and he was replaced by an unknown local boy of 33 kg.
Even though it cannot be fully confirmed whether he actually existed or not. But based on few available historic records, the original name of Phan Thai Norasing is "Sing" (Thai:สิงห์) and his birthplace is assumed to be Bhan Bha Mhok, Ang Thong in current time. Also, he had a wife named "Sri Naun". For "Phan Thai", it is a title for coxswain in Thai and how Sing earned this title started from the first meeting between Sing and King Sanphet VIII (Phrachao Suea) during King Sanphet VIII's trip in Ang Thong.
Southampton entered her assigned transport area off Iwo Jima on 19 February. She lowered landing craft and dispatched them to other ships of the division to ferry the assault troops to the beach. Southampton sustained her only casualties of the Iwo Jima assault during the initial landings when a mortar shell exploded close aboard one of her LCVP's and wounded the coxswain and a seaman. During the last two weeks in February, the attack cargo ship joined in unloading troops and supplies and embarking casualties from the fighting ashore.
He is sent with his coxswain, Brown, and his injured first lieutenant, Bush, to Paris for a show trial and execution. During the journey, Hornblower and his companions escape. After a winter sojourn at the chateau of the Comte de Graçay, during which he has an affair with the nobleman's widowed daughter-in-law, the escapees travel down the Loire river to the coastal city of Nantes. There, he recaptures a Royal Navy cutter, the Witch of Endor, mans the vessel with a commandeered gang of slave labourers, and escapes to the Channel Fleet.
The training and physical strain on the body required to be a successful rower is intense. A very tough mind and body is needed to succeed. There are a number of different boat classes in which athletes compete, ranging from an individual shell (called a single scull) to an eight-person shell with a coxswain (called a coxed eight). Modern rowing as a competitive sport can be traced to the early 17th century when races (regattas) were held between professional watermen on the River Thames in London, United Kingdom.
Born in 1854 in Kingston, Jamaica, Davis immigrated to the United States and by February 1881 was serving as an ordinary seaman on the . Sometime during that month, while Trenton was at Toulon, France, Coxswain Augustus Ohlensen fell overboard and, because he could not swim, began to sink. Davis and another sailor, Seaman Alexander Haure Turvelin, jumped into the water and rescued Ohlensen from drowning. For this action, both he and Turvelin were awarded the Medal of Honor three and a half years later, on October 18, 1884.
Caterson's first World Championship national representation was in the men's lightweight eight at the 1984 World Rowing Championships in Montreal, a lightweight only regatta being an Olympic year. The following year at Hazewinkel 1985 he coxed the Australian heavyweight men's eight who placed ninth. At the 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England, Caterson steered the Australian men's eight to a gold medal. It was Australia's first and only World Championship title in the men's heavyweight eight and Caterson became the first coxswain to steer an Australian coxed boat to a world title.
Commissioned in summer 1939 Jesse Lumb served throughout the Second World War, saving 138 lives during the conflict. On the night of 29/30 January 1940, Jesse Lumb spent 14 hours at sea in freezing weather while rescuing the crew of the trawler Kingston Cairngorm off Chichester. Coxswain Harry J Gawn was later awarded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Bronze Medal. On 8 August 1940, during the Battle of Britain, Jesse Lumb went to the assistance of a Royal Air Force air-sea rescue launch that had been machine-gunned by German aircraft.
Other craft, especially those with a ramp like the LCV and LCVP were structurally weak in the bow and could not be loaded before lowering from davits; personnel being transported in these types climbed down scramble nets into these boat. The 3-man crew of a British LCP(L) were led by a Leading Seaman or Royal Marine Corporal coxswain who steered the boat and operated engine controls on the port side of the cockpit. Beside him was the Lewis gunner who also acted as bowman handling any rope-work forward.
Shortly after Tammy Homolka's funeral her parents left town and Lori visited her grandparents in Mississauga, leaving the house empty. According to author Stephen Williams, during the weekend of January 12, 1991, Bernardo abducted a girl, took her to the house, raped her while Homolka watched and dropped her off on a deserted road near Lake Gibson. Bernardo and Homolka called her "January girl". At about 5:30 a.m. on April 6, 1991, Bernardo abducted a 14-year-old who was warming up as coxswain for a local rowing team.
The following year he received a Silver Medal and Motor Mechanic James McDermott a Bronze Medal for their rescue of four people from a steam tug. The rescue of five crew members from the yacht Dehra resulted in the award of a Bronze Medal to lifeboatman Donald Laker in 1965. Another was awarded in 1972 to Coxswain Alfred Pavey following the rescue of an injured crewman from the yacht Nomis. On 14 October 1976 the lifeboat put to sea in a hurricane to assist the yacht Latifa and her crew of eight.
The four went on to the 1986 World Rowing Championships in Nottingham where they finished in seventh place. Fry was Australia's senior women's coxswain for the five year period from 1986 to 1990. She steered the coxed four to a seventh place at the 1987 World Rowing Championships Fry at World Rowing but no women's crews were sent to the 1988 Olympics and no coxed crew went to the 1989 World Championships. Fry was back at the 1990 World Rowing Championships on the rudder in the Australian women's eight who rowed to a seventh place.
Four years later Distin was himself awarded a bronze medal when, on 4 December 1943, he rescued eleven people from a salvage craft off Start Point. On 8 January 1992, the Baltic Exchange II went to help the MV Janet C which was adrift without power near Start Point. The crew managed to get a line across and held the coaster off the rocks for three hours until a tug was able to take over the tow. Coxswain/Mechanic Frank Smith was awarded a bronze medal for his courage, seamanship and determination during this service.
During several of these cruises, Fried worked in the deck area where navigation was being taught. In his spare time, he began to study navigational formulas and was assisted by officers, until he had begun to grasp the fundamentals of the science of navigation. During five years of service aboard the Hartford from 1900–05, he progressed from ordinary seaman to coxswain, quartermaster, and finally chief quartermaster, with each position developing and refining what would become his remarkable navigation skills.Fried, George, "My Thirty Years at Sea", Ludington Daily News, pg.
George Leslie MacDonald (5 October 1906 – 25 September 1997), known as Les or Shorty MacDonald, competed for Canada in rowing events in the 1932 and 1936 Olympics, winning a bronze medal as coxswain in the men's eight event in the 1932 games in Los Angeles. He also won a bronze medal in the same event at the 1930 British Empire Games. MacDonald was born in Hamilton, Ontario. His adult height of brought him the nickname "Shorty", but he commenced his sporting career in basketball before joining Hamilton's Leander Rowing Club.
The LCAs were swung down to the level of the loading decks and the crews climbed aboard. At this time the troops were assembled by platoons ready to cross gangways. When the coxswain gave the platoon commander the word, he took his men over and into the stern of the LCA and they filed forward. The platoon divided into three lines, one for each section of the platoon, the outboard two sections sitting under the protection of the troop well's armoured decks, the centre section crouched on the low seating bench down the middle.
Casting-off was done in all sorts of sea conditions, and the sea might be rising and falling a metre or more (6' swells were not uncommon on D-Day). A combination of skill and luck could redeem a failure to cast-off, nevertheless. On D-Day, an LCA of Royal Marine 535 Flotilla, LSI Glenearn, released all but its after falls, which were jammed, and the craft tilted alarmingly to 45 degrees. The coxswain kept his head, calming the passengers, while seamen worked to free the falls.
The ground crew attaches the high line through the chair to the endless whip and raises the high line to the tower. Once the high line reaches the tower, it is attached to the mast with a round turn and two half hitches and a signal is passed to the coxswain. The ground crew ties a bowline on a bight into the high line and hooks it to the blocks. The crew hauls on the blocks tightening the high line and secures it to the deadman with a cleat hitch.
By 1996, NLWC CENTENNIAL in Winnipeg, MB was the very last NLWC left in Canada. The decision was made to amalgamate NLWC CENTENNIAL with NLCC JRK MILLEN, who was at the time, all male. In June 1997 the last annual inspection was held, with Lt(NL) Sandi Van De Vorst as the CO, Lt(NL) Lori Armitage as the XO, and CPO1 Sapphire Kozak as the Coxswain. 30 August 97, the last summer parade was held in Morden, MB and effective 1 September 97 all NLWC CENTENNIAL, became a member of NLCC JRK MILLEN.
Coxswain Billy Fleming tried to use the lee provided by the close by Trent, but with the seas still heavy this proved to be too dangerous, and she stood off to wait until conditions improved. Another attempt was made at midday, and on the fifth attempt they managed to get a line to the stranded section. Hopes were dashed when a huge wave picked up the lifeboat and dropped her in a trough which snapped the line. The Gorleston boat then developed engine trouble and dropped away from the rescue.
John W. Greenslade was born on January 11, 1880 in Bellevue, Ohio as the son of merchant and farmer, John Henry Greenslade and Nellie Wills. He graduated from the Bellevue High School in his hometown in summer 1895 and received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. While at the Academy, Greenslade reached the rank of Cadet-Ensign was active as Coxswain in the Crew team and was nicknamed "Babe" by fellow Midshipmen. Greenslade (second from left) with Officers at Iloilo, Philippine Islands, January 1900.
William A Mogridge was appointed as Coxswain of the Torbay Lifeboat in October 1932. On the evening of 30 December 1935 he took the Lifeboat Gorge Shee through a gale to help the Satanicle, a French trawler that was east of Start Point. After two and a half hours the lifeboat reached the sinking boat, guided by the searchlight of an American steamer. Three of the crew had been taken off by another boat but it took careful manoeuvring of the lifeboat to rescue the one person left aboard.
Two men were taken off and the pilot boat towed back towards Brixham but a wave knocked the Edward Bridges right over so that her propellers and keel were out of the water. Her self-righting design proved itself and she was soon back upright, but lifeboatman John Ashford was missing. The lifeboat's coxswain, John Dyer, flicked the tow line across to the man overboard and he caught it and was pulled back on board. The captain was later taken off the pilot boat and the tow abandoned.
The Union troops initially pushed Rebel forces back, but not away from the bridge. Sailors from USS Hendrick Hudson also participated, and two were awarded the Medal of Honor for their part in this battle: Seaman John Mack and Coxswain George Schutt. Confederate forces under Brigade General William Miller, protected by breastworks, guarded all of the approaches and the bridge itself. The action at Natural Bridge lasted most of the day, but, unable to take the bridge in three separate charges, the Union troops retreated to the protection of the fleet.
Richard John Tuffin (born 1944) is a former New Zealand rowing coxswain. He coxed the Union Boat Club four, consisting of Donald Gemmell, Peter Aitchison, Frank Crotty and Graeme Moran to victory at the New Zealand rowing championships in 1958. The same crew went on to represent New Zealand at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, finishing fourth. Born in Whanganui in 1944, Tuffin was 14 years old when he competed at the 1958 Cardiff games, and is the youngest person to represent New Zealand at a Commonwealth Games.
At the 1968 Games in Mexico City he won the bronze medal as cox of the Soviet boat in the eights event. In 1972 he coxed the Soviet boat which finished fifth in the coxed pair competition. His last Olympic appearance was in Montreal at the 1976 Olympics when he won the silver medal as part of the Soviet boat in the coxed pairs event. Lorentsson began with long-distance running and only in 1958 started training in rowing, following his elder brother Valentin who already competed as a coxswain.
June returns for the annual Ring Dance but Dick finds excuses not to allow her the tradition of placing his class ring on his finger. During Dick's final summer cruise, Coxswain is one of the ship's crew and proudly informs his former roommates that he has been accepted for readmission to the academy. His love of the Navy makes Dick uncomfortable and he places his ring on his finger one night on deck. During gunnery training, one of the ship's steam lines bursts and starts a boiler fire.
1954 C'wealth Games Selection racing for the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was conducted in January 1958 and New South Wales oarsmen and combinations dominated. The New South Wales eight was selected in toto to race as the Australian eight and Robberds selected as coxswain. In Cardiff the eight rowed to a silver medal and four of the crew with Robberds in the stern also raced as a coxed four and took a bronze medal.1958 C'wealth Games For the 1960 Rome Olympics the Australian eight was the winning King's Cup West Australian eight.

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