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 a steamship called the
  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 Longshore.
• 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 Darling's 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