Lionel Lukin
Lionel Lukin (born May 18, 1742 in Little Dunmow , Essex , † February 16, 1834 in Hythe , Kent ) was an English carriage maker and inventor of the first patented unsinkable lifeboat and pioneer of sea rescue .
Designer of the first lifeboats
Lionel Lukin designed a non-sinking lifeboat and patented it in 1785. It was based on a Norwegian yawl with an iron keel and had air boxes fore and aft and a watertight compartment amidships and the side walls had a thick cork belt on both sides. The boat was entrusted to a pilot from Ramsgate, who used it not for rescue operations but for smuggling. A year later, Lukin converted an English beach fishing boat (Cobler), which was made available to the first rescue station in Bamborough Castle on the Tynes Estuary . In 1807 he built a 12m long sailing lifeboat for the Suffolk Human Society from which a whole series of popular lifeboats developed.
plant
- The Invention, Principles of Construction, and Uses of Unimmergible Boats: Stated in a Letter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . Nicholl and Son 1806.
literature
- Frederick Robus: Lionel Lukin of Dunmow: The Inventor of the Lifeboat . Robus Broth. 1925.
Web links
- Life Boat on Made up in Britain
- 1785: The first lifeboats on the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Individual evidence
- ^ Lionel Lukin Encyclopedia Britannica, February 12, 2019, accessed March 25, 2019
- ↑ Hans Georg Prager: Rescuers without glory: The adventure of sea emergency aid . Sutton 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-024-1 , p. 37.
- ^ Clayton Evans: Rescue at Sea . Conway Maritime Press 2003, ISBN 0-85177-934-4 , pp. 90 f.
- ^ The Life Boat . Volume 2, Issue 1, 1853, Royal National Lifeboat Institution , p. 90.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lukin, Lionel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English carriage maker and inventor of the lifeboat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1742 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Little Dunmow , Essex |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1834 |
| Place of death | Hythe , Kent |