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William Wouldhave (1751–1821) is a rival of Lionel Lukin for the title of inventor of the lifeboat. His tombstone, erected thirteen years before Lukin’s, describes Wouldhave as:
clerk from South Shields, William Wouldhave, also made a claim for the invention of the Lifeboat. William Wouldhave, a contemporary of Lukin's, also has a claim to have invented the lifeboat. Henry... developing the best of all the ideas submitted in the contest, including those of Wouldhave but with the...
Tyne on January 29, 1790. William Wouldhave and Lionel Lukin both claimed to be the inventor of the...