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The Forfarshire and Grace Darling

Big Harcar, Farne Islands, Northumberland

A lighthouse keeper's daughter who rowed out into a storm.

In September 1838 the steamship Forfarshire broke apart on the Farne Islands in a storm. From the Longstone Lighthouse, 22-year-old Grace Darling and her father rowed a small boat through huge seas and rescued nine survivors.

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When
7 September 1838
Where
55.6400, -1.6100
Group
Shipwrecks

Visiting

The Grace Darling Museum is in Bamburgh. Boat trips from Seahouses visit the Longstone Lighthouse.

Cover of Blood and Gold by Cale Mills
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Blood and Gold

Sixteen true stories of mutiny, mercy, treasure and the gallows from the Golden Age of Piracy: Henry Every, Bartholomew “Black Bart” Roberts, Edward England, Howell Davis, Christopher Moody, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Benjamin Hornigold, Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Israel Hands, Calico Jack, Edward Low, Captain William Kidd and Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy. Where the record is uncertain, the book says so.

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