 | 1900 - 676 pagine
...copy of the nscription on his tombstone : — " This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a life>oat, and was the original inventor of that principle of safety, by which many lives and much property lave been saved from shipwreck ; and he obtained he King's patent in 1785." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71,... | |
 | 1900 - 614 pagine
...in 1834. About three years ago I made the following copy of the nscription on his tombstone :— " This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a lifeboat, and was the original in ventor of that principle of safety, by which many lives and much property lave been saved from shipwreck... | |
 | 1853 - 684 pagine
...settled at Ну the, in Kent, where he died in 1834 ; and on the back of his tombstone is engraved " This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a lifeboat,...safety by which many lives and much property have been saved from shipwreck ; and he obtained the King's patent in 1785." Whether GREATHEAD was acquainted... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pagine
...credit has been given to Greathead as the original inventor, the tomb of Lionel Lukin records him to be "the first who built a Life-boat, and was the original...safety by which many lives and much property have been saved from shipwreck; he obtained the King's patent in 1785. In No. 23 of the Life Boat, — a Journal... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1862 - 586 pagine
...the sides, and under the thwarts. Lukin died at Hythe in 1834 ; and on his tombstone is inscribed : " This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a life-boat,...safety, by which many lives and much property have been saved from shipwreck ; and he obtained the King's patent in 1785." This epitaph, however, has not interfered... | |
 | 1862 - 594 pagine
...the sides, and under the thwarts. Lukin died at Hythe in 1834; and on his tombstone is inscribed: " This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a life-boat,...safety, by which many lives and much property have been saved from shipwreck; and he obtained the King's patent in 1785." This epitaph, however, has not interfered... | |
 | Richard Lewis - 1874 - 358 pagine
...was engraved on the reverse side of his tombstone, and is still to be seen in Hythe churchyard : " This LIONEL LUKIN Was the first who built a Life-boat,...much property have been preserved from Shipwreck; and he obtained for it the King's patent in the year 1785." As we have said, notwithstanding LUKIN'S... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 488 pagine
...Hythe, there may be seeu to-day this inscription on the reverse side of a tombstone : — " This LIONEL Was the first who built a Life-boat, and was the original...much property have been preserved from Shipwreck; and he obtained for it the King's patent in the year 1785.'' It was not until the year 1823, that great... | |
 | 1886 - 848 pagine
...Kent, in 1834, and the following inscription was engraved on his tombstone and is still to be seen : "This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a lifeboat,...much property have been preserved from shipwreck, and he obtained for it the King's Patent in the year 1785." Notwithstanding the earnestness of Lukin,... | |
 | James Samuelson - 1896 - 446 pagine
...1785, but gained nothing by his humanitarian enterprise beyond the inscription on his tomb that he was " the original inventor of that principle of safety...much property have been preserved from shipwreck." He died in 1834. Shortly after the period just named (1785) other attempts were made to provide lifeboats,... | |
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This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a life-boat, and was the original inventor of that principle of safety, by which many lives and much property have been saved from shipwreck ; and he obtained the King's patent in 1785. 
