Grace Darling, rowing with her father

Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), daughter of the lighthouse keeper, William Darling, on the Farne Islands, seen here rowing with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838 -- together with her father she saved 13 people from the wreck

1838 Brave Courage Farne Forfarshire Heroine Horsley Keeper Lighthouse Oars Rescuing Saved Saving Shipwreck Steamboat Thirteen Wreck

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