• Lionel Lukin (18 May 1742 – 16 February 1834) was a British carriage builder inventor, noted for the invention of the 'unimmergible' lifeboat. Lukin was...
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  • Lukin (1860–1925), South African military commander George Lukins, Yatton dœmoniac Lionel Lukin (1742–1834), English inventor of the life boat Lionel...
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  • Justice Lionel Oscar Lukin (4 January 1868 — 1 June 1944) was appointed as the first judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Australia...
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    (1751–1821) is a rival of Lionel Lukin for recognition as inventor of the lifeboat. His tombstone (erected thirteen years before Lukin’s) describes him as: ‘Inventor...
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    Gard, the mythical castle home of Sir Lancelot in Arthurian legend. Lionel Lukin's first purpose-built lifeboat was stationed here in 1786. The Royal National...
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  • first trip from New York City to Albany. November 19 – English inventor Lionel Lukin launches the world's first sailing self-righting rescue life-boat, the...
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  • representing East Province. Lukin was born in Toodyay, Western Australia, to Jane Sarah (née Cruikshank) and Lionel Lukin. He farmed for a while in the...
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    priest in The Clock House, The Causeway, where she was a housekeeper Lionel Lukin (1742–1834) – considered by some to have been the inventor of the unsinkable...
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  • The first non-submersible ('unimmergible') lifeboat is credited to Lionel Lukin, an Englishman who, in 1784, modified and patented a 20-foot (6.1 m)...
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    journalist who built (1883) 'Lucy's' on what is now Lucy's Hill in Hythe Lionel Lukin, credited with inventing the self-righting lifeboat, is buried in the...
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