Grace
By luigi_pagano
Tue, 30 Jul 2024
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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
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Inspired by her bravery,
poets from Wordsworth
to William McGonacall
penned laudatory verse
about an extraordinary
young girl called Grace.
She became famous
for saving the lives of people
stranded on a rock
after a shipwreck
by rowing a small coble
in a treacherous rough sea.
Alongside her father.
the lighthouse keeper,
fought the raging waters
and held the boat steady
so that the survivors
could be taken on board.
When the news spread
she became a heroine;
dozens of portrait painters
sailed to her island home
to capture her likeness.
September the 7th 1838
was the start of a legend.
© Luigi Pagano 2024
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Was she the inspiration for
Was she the inspiration for the start of the RNLI or has it already started, d'you know? Rhiannon
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Hi Luigi,
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Hi Luigi,
A tribute of a poem to such an amazing and courageous woman. She was definitely Amazing Grace and you picked the right time to share it with the I. P. this week.
Jenny. xx
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Der Junge Thomas
She was very brave and especially in staying alive! There is a similar story here of heroic Wolraad Woltemade saving sailors in a terrible storm from a ship wrecked, each time returning to the ship in the sea, on his horse, and he was drowned also himself in the end. The ship was "Der Junge Thomas".
I enjoyed your story. All the best! Nolan &
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Thanks for looking it up
Thanks for looking it up Luigi and giving us the correct facts. Tom
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