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Title: Grace Darling


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Grace Darling
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  • Grace Darling was the daughter of William
    Darling, the lighthouse keeper on Longstone
    lighthouse on the Farne Islands.

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  • It was a very lonely life as no-one else lived on
    the island.
  • William and Grace had to keep the light burning
    to warn ships about the dangerous rocks.

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  • One stormy night the steamship Forfarshire, with
    60 passengers on board, was passing Little Farne
    when the engine stopped.
  • The captain tried to use the sails to get ashore
    safely but the boat was driven onto the Harcar
    Rocks.

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  • Grace Darling saw the wreck from the lighthouse
    and called her father.
  • There I see a ship, she said as she peered into
    the dark.

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  • It was such a terrible storm that neither Grace
    nor her father thought that anyone could have
    survived.
  • But as dawn rose they saw people on the rocks.

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  • Grace and her father set out in their rowing
    boat to try to rescue them.
  • When they arrived on Little Farne there were nine
    survivors but only enough room for five people in
    the boat.

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  • They bravely rowed back to Longstone.
  • Then William and two of the crew of the ship went
    back for the people who had been left behind.

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  • When Grace Darlings story was heard, people
    thought she was very brave to have helped her
    father and she was given a silver medal to
    remember her bravery.

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A memorial for Grace Darling
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Acknowledgements
  • www.angliacampus.com
  • www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/poems/pgdarling.htm
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