Grace Darling
Grace Horsley Darling (born November 24, 1815 in Bamburgh , Northumberland , † October 20, 1842 ibid) was the daughter of the English lighthouse keeper William Darling, who achieved national fame for her work during a shipwreck.
SS Forfarshire accident
On September 7, 1838, Grace Darling was watching the Farne Isles through a window in the lighthouse on Longstone . She discovered the SS Forfarshire paddle steamer , which had an accident due to a storm. The ship smashed against the cliffs and broke. Since Darling and her father judged the weather to be too stormy for the lifeboats from Bamburgh or North Sunderland to be deployed, they decided to go for a rescue operation by rowboat . At the risk of their lives they managed to save nine castaways from the steamship from death, and nine more survived. An estimated 43 more people could not be saved.
Appreciation
Grace Darling achieved national fame for her rescue operation in the SS Forfarshire disaster and is honored to this day. For her commitment, she was awarded the Silver Medal of Bravery by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (today: Royal National Lifeboat Institution ) . Since 1938 her story has been shown in a museum in Bamburgh.
Shortly after her death, the Grace Darling Memorial was erected in the Bamburgh cemetery. The poet William Wordsworth dedicated the poem Grace Darling to her in 1843 .
literature
- Richard Armstrong: Grace Darling: Maid and Myth (1965)
- Hugh Cunningham: Grace Darling - Victorian Heroine Hambledon: Continuum (2007) ISBN 978-1-85285-548-2
- Thomasin Darling: Grace Darling, her True Story: from Unpublished Papers in Possession of her Family (1880)
- Thomasin Darling: The Journal of William Darling, Grace Darling's Father (1887)
- Eva Hope - Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands, Her Life and its Lessons Walter Scott (1880)
- Jessica Mitford : Grace Had an English Heart. The Story of Grace Darling, Heroine and Victorian Superstar (1998) ISBN 0-525-24672-X
- Constance Smedley: Grace Darling and Her Times Hurst and Blackett (1932)
- Darling, Grace Horsley . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 14: Damon - D'Eyncourt. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1888, pp. 57 - 58 (English).
- HCG Matthew : Darling, Grace Horsley (1815-1842). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of May 2010
Web links
- Grace Darling Museum of the RNLI
- Grace Darling page on Britain un-Limited
- Description of the sinking of the Forfarshire and Grace Darling's part in the rescue , from The Tragedy of the Seas , 1841, from Google Book Search
- “Grace Darling: Victorian heroine” BBC
- Grace Darling genealogy
- Grace Darling by William Wordsworth
- Grace Darling in the database of Find a Grave (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Darling, Grace |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Darling, Grace Horsley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English lifesaver, daughter of the lighthouse keeper William Darling |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamburgh , Northumberland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1842 |
| Place of death | Bamburgh , Northumberland |