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The remarkable story of Grace Darling
The remarkable story of Grace Darling
In 1838 a young woman named Grace Darling was thrown into the spotlight after helping her lighthouse keeper father to save a group of people who had been shipwrecked on the rocks in a storm
Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper’s daughter,who is now famous for having rowed a boat out to the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838. She wanted to see if she could help rescue them.
The boat ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England; nine members of her crew were saved
Author/Guide: Margaret Nash Destination: Bamburgh, Farne Islands Departure Time: 1838
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