"to the mercy of the sea, which swung the ""Forfarshire"" around and tore off the stern quarterdeck and cabins, leaving only the bow and fore sections of the ship anchored to the rock. A few passengers managed to hold on to railings and make it through the night, later transferring to Big Harcar, including Sarah Dawson (a passenger), who was distraught, holding the bodies of her two dead children (James, 7, and Matilda, 5). Their predicament was spotted at first light by Grace Darling, daughter of William, the keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse, which was situated about from the wreck"
"Grace Darling Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter, famed for participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked ""Forfarshire"" in 1838. The paddlesteamer ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England; nine members of her crew were saved. Grace Darling was born on 24 November 1815 at her grandfather's cottage in Bamburgh in Northumberland. She was the seventh of nine children (four brothers and four sisters) born to William and Thomasin Darling, and when only a few weeks old she was taken to"
"she may have suffered from a cleft lip. He is the only biographer to put forward this theory, which has been strongly disputed. Grace Darling Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter, famed for participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked ""Forfarshire"" in 1838. The paddlesteamer ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England; nine members of her crew were saved. Grace Darling was born on 24 November 1815 at her grandfather's cottage in Bamburgh in Northumberland. She was the seventh of nine"
"gather vegetables from their former garden and to feed the animals. The family spent most of their time on the ground floor of the lighthouse which consisted of a large room, heated by a wood stove. The room was their living room, dining room and kitchen in one and had a spiral staircase leading to three bedrooms above and the light at the top of the tower. In the early hours of 7 September 1838, Darling, looking from an upstairs window, spotted the wreck and survivors of the ""Forfarshire"" on Big Harcar, a nearby low rocky island. The ""Forfarshire"" had"
"return to North Sunderland so they rowed to the lighthouse to take shelter. Darling's brother, William Brooks Darling, was one of the seven fishermen in the lifeboat. The weather deteriorated to the extent that everyone was obliged to remain at the lighthouse for three days before returning to shore. The ""Forfarshire"" had been carrying 62 people. The vessel broke in two almost immediately upon hitting the rocks. Those rescued by Darling and her father were from the bow section of the vessel which had been held by the rocks for some time before sinking. All that remained at daybreak was"
"Darling who in 1838, with her lighthouse keeper father William, rescued 9 survivors from the wreck of the SS Forfarshire off the coast of Bamburgh in Northumberland. Billed as ""When Hollywood came to Northumberland it was bound to cause a storm"", this is a contemporary, funny and heartfelt story about the making of the biopic of the very first Victorian heroine. After a world premiere at Alnwick Playhouse (co-producers) on 17 October, the production is touring to ten venues throughout the north east of England and a collection will be held for the RNLI after each of the 23 shows."
"from the area, Ann Harvey, along with her father, her twelve-year-old brother and a dog, rescued 160 people from the wreck between 12 and 15 July. As a result, Ann Harvey became known as the ""Grace Darling of Newfoundland"". The English government later awarded them a medal and a sum of money for their heroic feat. Survivors were taken to Halifax aboard HMS ""Tyne"". Despatch (brig) Despatch was a brig noted for having shipwrecked near Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, and for the subsequent heroic rescue of many of her passengers and crew. ""Despatch"" was partly owned by William Lancaster of"
"gale, with heavy rain and a change in wind direction to due North. At this the ship was turned around to run before the wind and seek shelter behind the Farne Islands. At 3am on 7 September, she struck aground with considerable force, on Big Harcar (also locally then known and pronounced as ""Great Hawker""), one of the Outer Farne Islands. A group of eight sailors and a passenger (not identified) managed to lower and escape in a lifeboat, to be picked up the following morning by a passing schooner bound for Hull. The remaining passengers and crew were left"
"live on Brownsman Island, one of the Farne Islands, in a small cottage attached to the lighthouse. Her father ran the lighthouse (built in 1795) for Trinity House and earned a salary of £70 per annum (UK£ in 2019) with a bonus of £10 for satisfactory service. The accommodation was basic and the lighthouse was not in the best position to guide shipping to safety, so in 1826 the family moved to the newly constructed lighthouse on Longstone Island. Longstone Lighthouse had better accommodation, but the island itself was slightly less hospitable, so William would row back to Brownsman to"
"of her work on the surrounding environment. Captain John Deane, an adventurer and mercenary, lived in the village. His ship ""The Nottingham Galley"" sank off the coast of Boon Island, New England in 1710. Deane and his crew, trapped on the island, were forced to cannibalise a corpse shortly before being rescued. Deane subsequently served in the Russian navy under Peter the Great, and retired to Wilford in 1736. He is buried in the grounds of Wilford Church. William Wilberforce lived in Wilford for a short time whilst writing his bill for the abolition of slavery. Jeremiah Brandreth was born"
"only nine remaining survivors. William left Grace to hold the boat steady whilst he assisted the transfer of three of Forefarshire's crew and Mrs Dawson to the boat. William with the aid of two of the rescued crew then rowed the boat back to the lighthouse while Grace comforted Mrs. Dawson who had by this time lost the bodies of her two sons to the sea. William and the two strongest of the rescued crew then rowed back to the wreck site and rescued the remaining four survivors. The survivors confirmed that thirteen had made it to the rock during"
"compared with the ceaseless boom and consequent suffering of the past three nights""; ""Firth of Forth torment""; ""An Edinburgh grievance which has left rankling memories in the selection of Granton for the fog horn test"" were typical of statements made and written at the time. On 8 December 1959, the lightship was the subject of a tragic rescue mission. After the lightship broke her moorings and began to drift in heavy seas, the Broughty Ferry lifeboat (The ""Mona"") was launched. Her crew of eight was lost when the Lifeboat capsized. The Lightship and its crew survived and after repair was"
"and their achievements; the ""Brightwell"" (1862), another ""Brightwell"" (1863), the ""Zaccheus Burroughs"" (1891), and the ""Hettie"" (1873). Next to these is a stone plaque listing the rescues from 1877 to 1924, including those of the last lifeboat, the ""Caroline"" (1908), and further along the north aisle a painting of George Long, coxswain of the ""Caroline"", is placed above the record of its most famous rescues on consecutive days on 7 and 8 January 1918, when 30 people were saved from two steamers in a storm. A large wooden board acts as a war memorial, listing those locals who died in"
"two teenage girls: Susan Tassell and Amanda Hicks. The first three were brought ashore by the Falmouth lifeboat, the fourth by the Fowey lifeboat. On 5 August the body of Jean Brock was found, wearing a lifebelt, six miles west of the Eddystone lighthouse. That same day, light wreckage—planking from the on-board dinghy, an engine cover, a plastic ball and some sun tan lotion—was found on a beach near Polperro. On 8 August two more bodies—Margaret Wright and Susan Cowan—were found about eight miles from the Eddystone Lighthouse. Patricia Russell and Eileen Tassell were found two days later, off Looe"
"made slow progress and some time later in the evening the towline parted. The ""Hendrick"" tried in vain to re-connect the towline but was unable to. At 10 pm the ""Fairy"" ran aground onto the sand and the seas began to sweep over the ship. The ""Emma Constance"" made an approach toward the stricken ship but the violent seas lifted the body of the lifeboat across the rails of the ""Fairy"". A second large surge lifted her back off the ship and she then made another approach and this time successfully rescued the seven crewmen. During the rescue one of"
"were drowned. Initially, it was unclear if there was one or two shipwrecks after debris started floating ashore near South Beach in Fremantle. A pilot sent out from Fremantle ascertained the fate of ""Carlisle Castle"" at about the same time as ""City of York"" was first sighted, however delays in communications and the severe weather added to the confusing situation. A short time after the storm, the government recognised the need for additional lighthouses to assist with navigation in the waters around the island and the approaches to Fremantle. A second lighthouse at Rottnest at Bathurst Point on the eastern"
"with only her rigging remaining above water. Next morning boats dispatched by Admiral James Saumarez, commander of the Royal Navy Channel Islands squadron and himself a Guernsey native, rescued thirty men. In all, 120 persons drowned, including Scott. Twenty-six of the survivors took advantage of the situation to desert. The normal Court Martial was held with the Captain, officers and crew being praised for their ""standing in good conduct"". The sinking added greatly to the call to construct a lighthouse, which resulted in Les Hanois Lighthouse being erected in 1860-62. Fort Grey on Guernsey is now a shipwreck museum and"
"12 passengers, and 1 prisoner drowned including the infamous actress Ann Cargill. She was returning to England from India and her body was found clinging to a young child and they were buried on Rosevear along with other bodies found. She was later interred in the churchyard in Old Town on St Mary's. In 1841 the captain of a paddle steamer the ""SS ""Thames"""" mistook the lighthouse on St Agnes for the Longships, changed course to north and steamed onto the Cribewidden Rocks with the loss of 62 of the 66 passengers and crew. The second known heaviest loss of"
"in 1842 and the monument was raised over her grave in the same year. It is a Grade II* listed structure. Grace Darling's rescue, with her father, of nine survivors from the ""SS Forfarshire"" made her a national heroine. Darling received the Gold Medal for Bravery from the Royal Humane Society, the Silver Medal for Gallantry from the precursor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a tribute fund included a contribution of £50 from Queen Victoria. Her death from tuberculosis four years later was an occasion of national mourning. Buried in the churchyard of St Aidan's, her grave was"
"and then breaking over them like a gigantic wave. There was nothing but a mound of pure white."" A rescue operation by townspeople succeeded in pulling seven survivors from the wreckage before hypothermia or suffocation could claim them, but eight other individuals were found dead. Their names are recorded on a commemorative tablet on the inside wall of South Malling parish church, one mile away, where the funeral and burial took place. The fatalities included people with the family names Barnden, Bridgman and Geer, while survivors included a young labourer Jeremiah Rooke, a middle-aged woman named Fanny Sherlock (or Sharlock)"
"tower on the Inner Farne (the largest and closest inshore of the islands), and the lighthouse cottage on the Brownsman in the outer group. The pele tower was built around 1500, by or for Thomas Castell, Prior of Durham. The first lighthouse was built on the islands in 1773. There are currently two lighthouses operated by Trinity House on the Farne Islands: Built in 1811 and originally named Inner Farne Lighthouse Built in 1826 and originally named Outer Farne Lighthouse. Former lighthouses on the islands include: All the operational lighthouses on the Farnes are now automatic and have no resident"
"cut out of Torbay ""Anna"" of Hull, ""Hopwell"" of Lisbon, and ""Lucy"" of Whitehaven. ""Hopewell"" was later recaptured. On 21 May 1800 ""Fly"" arrived at Portsmouth from Halifax with dispatches from the Duke of Kent. She made the crossing in three weeks, having narrowly escaped hitting an immense island of ice on the edge of the Newfoundland Banks. ""Fly"" had been sailing in a thick fog at dusk when lookouts suddenly spotted the iceberg about 120 yards (""a cable's length"") in front of her. ""Fly"" was moving at about nine knots but a swift turn of the helm enabled her"
"the island was reduced to ashes, and the buildings to the east were only saved by a change of wind direction. Traumatised by the event, Bonham-Christie banned all public access to the island for the rest of her life. During the Second World War large flares were placed on the western end of the island to mislead Luftwaffe bombers away from the port of Poole. The decoy saved Poole and Bournemouth from of German bombs, but the deserted village of Maryland was destroyed. In April 1961, Bonham-Christie died at 98 years old and her grandson gave the island to the"
"engulfed the home of Henrietta Carmichael at ""Felspar"". On 18 February 1926 Seaham came under direct threat from serious bushfires that almost destroyed the Seaham School of Arts and the Seaham Hotel. Another fire on 9 November 1928 destroyed a house on the ""Brandon"" estate. Seaham was partially destroyed by bushfires on 14 January 1939, the smoke of which could be seen as far north as Forster. At ""Porphyry"", the circa 1839 home of Mr and Mrs Gavin Ralston was completely destroyed, along with outbuildings and stables. At neighbouring ""Felspar"", the Graham family escaped ""with the utmost difficulty"" after the"
"adrift again. The following March, she was found drifting in a moderate southwest breeze, and was again towed to New Grimsby. She was towed back to her position on 10 April, and anchored in . Relief occurred monthly with the master or mate and twelve men always on board, with the other officer and three men on shore in rotation. Houses were provided on Tresco for the crew and provisions were procurred by crew members rowing and sailing to New Grimsby in the vessel's longboat. Two of the crew drowned on 15 October 1851 when one of the lightship's longboats"
"she ran ashore at 05:00hrs on the Ring Rocks off Bembridge, Isle of Wight. She ran well up on to them on a rising tide, the wind was light, and the sea was calm. Destroyers took off the troops, the crew remained on board as efforts were made to pull the vessel off. It was not expected to be a difficult task, but it proved impossible. The weather changed in a matter of hours and a gale blew up. The ""Queen Victoria"" was launched from the Bembridge Lifeboat Station to undertake rescue operations. Bembridge coxswain John Holbrook injured his hand"
"were lowered from the liner. ""Storstad"" stood by and assisted the survivors, lowering her own lifeboats and pulling 485 people from the ice cold waters of the river. Twenty of them would later die from hypothermia on board the freighter. Another steamship, ""SS Lady Evelyn"", came by later to help with the rescue and took the survivors to Rimouski. ""Storstad"" had her bow smashed in and twisted but managed to limp into the port of Montreal where she was detained. The Canadian Pacific Railway, which owned ""Empress of Ireland"", filed a $2,000,000 lawsuit for damages against A. F. Klaveness &"
"under Captain William Suckling, who had taken command in February 1822. On 14 December 1822 she sailed from Holyhead, Anglesey, bound for the Isle of Man to meet with the Revenue cutter ""Vigilant"". That night she was wrecked on a reef of rocks off Langness on the Isle of Man. Her pilot mistook the light on Langness Pier for the light on Douglas Pier. Boats from ""Racehorse"" took a number of the crew to shore, and five intrepid local men made four trips out and back to rescue more. On the last trip, with Suckling on board, the boat overturned"
"Firth was by ferry. On the night of 16 August 1809 over 100 people boarded the ferry boat on the Dornoch side along with goods and stock for the market in Tain. The over-laden ferryboat set off and, though conditions were calm, the boat was dangerously low in the water. About halfway across the boat turned broadside to the tide and began to take in water. It sank almost immediately with the loss of some 99 lives, including the Sheriff of Dornoch, Hugh MacCulloch. Over £2,900 were raised for disaster relief, much of it coming from overseas. It resulted in"
"Yorkshire, during a full North North East gale and with the lighthouses unlit due to the war. The reef is about offshore and the ship soon broke her back. The conditions made rescue extremely difficult, but six lifeboats the John Fielden, Robert and Mary Ellis (Whitby), William Riley of Birmingham and Leamington (Upgang), the motor lifeboat Bradford Middlesbrough, Queensbury Scarborough, North Yorkshire but it was the motor lifeboat Henry Vernon Tynemouth that was to take off the final souls and attempted to close on the wreck. Over the next three days, some of those who attempted to swim to safety"
"Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright Jessie Ace (1860–1936) and Margaret Wright (née Ace; 1854–1933) are known for their rescue of crewmen, from the Mumbles lifeboat, which had gone to assist a wrecked German barque during an 1883 storm at Mumbles Head, Wales. Ace and Wright were daughters of the Mumbles Lighthouse keeper Abraham Ace. On 27 January 1883, an 885-ton German barque named ""Admiral Prinz Adalbert"" of Danzig was caught in a storm in Mumbles Head and wrecked just below the lighthouse. The Mumbles lifeboat came to rescue the crew. When the Mumbles lifeboat, a wooden sailboat named the ""Wolverhampton"","
"the portside paddlebox casing. Nine other passengers and crew had managed to float off a lifeboat from the stern section before it too sank, and were picked up in the night by a passing Montrose sloop and brought into South Shields that same night. As news of her role in the rescue reached the public, her combination of bravery and simple virtue set her out as exemplary, and led to an uneasy role as the nation's heroine. Grace and her father were awarded the Silver Medal for bravery by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck,"
"possible), while off-loading supplies for those remaining on the island. Then ""Pharos"" arrived and took on board the remaining 60 survivors near the wreck site, the other 117 survivors having left the wreck site heading to the lighthouse. Having taken the rescued people to Melbourne, ""Victoria"" and ""Pharos"" returned to the lighthouse at King Island where they rescued the remaining survivors and replaced the lost whaleboat at the lighthouse. The survivors were taken by train and then by cab (a free service by the cabmen) to be accommodated in the Immigration Depot and Exhibition Building (not the present Royal Exhibition"