Children at the tomb of Grace Darling

Children at the tomb of Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), in St. Aidan's churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland. She was the daughter of the Farne Islands lighthouse keeper, William Darling. She rowed with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838 -- together they saved 13 people from the wreck. She died young of tuberculosis

1838 Aidan Bamburgh Brave Canopy Churchyard Commemoration Courage Effigy Farne Forfarshire Headstone Heroine Horsley Keeper Lighthouse Northumberland Rescuing Rowed Saved Saving Shipwreck Steamboat Thirteen Tombstone Tuberculosis Wreck

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