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3 unusual facts about Lionel Lukin


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Lionel Lukin (18 May 1742 - 16 February 1834 - considered by some to have been the inventor of the unsinkable lifeboat, designs for which he tested on the Doctor's Pond.

Lionel Lukin

Lukin was clearly a man ahead of his time, for despite his achievement, his appeals for the adoption of his craft, made to the then First Lord of the Admiralty and the Deputy Master of Trinity House fell resoundingly upon ‘deaf ears’.

William Wouldhave

William Wouldhave (1751–1821) is a rival of Lionel Lukin for recognition as inventor of the lifeboat.



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