- Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19
… weight to help keep the boat upright. == First Lifeboat == {{Image url="LifeBoatUnimmergible.jpg" class="left" title="Lukins Life Boat the Unimmergible" width="450" }} In 1786 Dr John Sharpe, Archdeacon of Northumberland, asked Lukin to conver…
… Sharpe, in Bamburgh, and served for a number of years as the **first known purpose built Lifeboat**. == Gravestone == Lukin died in 1834 in Hythe, Kent. The following inscription was engraved on the reverse side of his tombstone: @@“This LI…
…ONEL LUKIN Was the first who built a Life-boat, and was the original Inventor of that principle of safety, by which many lives and…
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