Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 brought her national fame.

Grace Darling was 22 when her life changed. On the night of 7 September 1838, a steamship called the Forfarshire was sailing from Hull in Yorkshire to Dundee in Scotland. The ship’s engines failed and around 60 crew and passengers were in peril in a storm.

Grace Darling was a British heroine who became famous for her participation in the rescue of shipwreck survivors. The daughter of a lighthouse keeper, Darling grew up on Longstone in the Farne Islands.

This is Grace Darling. She lived on the Farne Islands , off the Northumberland coast. Grace and her father rowed across stormy seas to rescue sailors from a shipwreck on 7th September 1838 .

2022年2月24日 · Grace Darling was an ordinary young woman who, like her father William, showed extraordinary courage in an emergency. Indeed, despite her almost cult-like following after 1838, Grace spent the remainder of her life living and working beside her parents on …

2024年5月26日 · Her extraordinary act of bravery not only saved lives, but captured the hearts and imagination of Victorian society, leaving a legacy that endures almost two centuries later. This is the remarkable story of Grace Darling.

2021年9月16日 · The daring and bravery of lighthouse keeper’s daughter Grace Darling made her a national heroine. On 7th September 1838, she and her father ventured out into a ferocious storm to rescue the survivors of the SS Forfarshire…

In 1838, Grace Darling etched her name into the pages of British and global history with an act of heroism and selflessness that saved 9 seafarers’ lives. Her name is still synonymous with heroic deeds today.

Grace Darling, a Victorian heroine Grace was in almost every newspaper in Britain, both local and national and she was showered with honours. These included the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Silver Medal for Gallantry and the gold medal of the Royal Humane Society.

Grace Darling (November 24, 1815 – October 20, 1842) is a storied English Victorian heroine, on the strength of a celebrated maritime rescue in 1838. Grace was born in 1815 at Bamburgh in Northumberland, and spent her youth in two lighthouses of which her father was the keeper.