Words Synonyms — Tudor Kings and Queens. Synonyms and antonyms Comprehension - Grace Darling Grace had heard the sound of the Soon, the story of the wreck and stricken vessel as it crashed into the daring rescue was splashed the rocks but could not see any- over the front pages of all the thing until 7am when it was bright major newspapers; Grace Darling enough to see survivors moving had became a national heroine. and clinging to a nearby rock. Will The public wanted to know all Darling thought that the atrocious about her, especially what she weather conditions would surely looked like. Since there were no Grace Horsley Darling was born prevent the launch of the North cameras in those days, hundreds of on 24th November 1815, in the Sunderland lifeboat and realised artists visited the lighthouse to small coastal town of Bamburgh, that he would have to go to help paint Grace’s portrait. For years Northumberland. Her loving par- himself. The only one who could after the rescue, the lighthouse was ents were William Darling and help him was Grace. busy with visitors wanting to meet his wife Thomasina and she was Grace took blankets with her to the famous Darling father and the seventh of nine children. In warm the survivors. The tide and daughter. Grace received hundreds early 1826, she and her family wind were so strong that they had of letters and presents and she was moved to Longstone Lighthouse to row for nearly a mile to avoid often asked for a lock of her hair. on the Farne Islands. Her father the jagged rocks and reach the Both Grace and her proud father was the lighthouse keeper there, survivors safely. were both awarded gold medals which was very hard work as the from the Royal Humane Society, lamp had to be constantly burn- There were nine people still alive and Silver Medals for Gallantry ing at all times. on the rocks - four passengers and five crew - nine of the crew had from the National Institution for The Farne Islands - situated in escaped on the ship’s only life- the Preservation of Life from Ship- the North Sea - were a notorious boat. William clambered out of the wreck - now known as the Royal ships' graveyard; a collection of boat and on to the rocks to help National Lifeboat Institution. rocks and small islands lying off the survivors, which left Grace to Even Queen Victoria sent her a the cliff at Bamburgh. Countless handle the boat alone. To keep it personal gift of £50. vessels coming from the south in one place, she had to take both In April 1842, only 4 years after often overshot the harbour at oars and row back and forth, to Tynemouth and came to grief the famous rescue, Grace became keep it from being smashed on the ill with tuberculosis. She realised among the Farnes further to the reef. On the rocks, William found north. that she did not have long to live so eight men, including one who was she gathered her family around her, On 7 September 1838, the paddle badly injured. There was also a and gave them each a special gift steamer SS Forfarshire - with its woman holding two children, both to remember her. 60 passengers and some 14 crew of whom had died. Grace’s father members - was sailing to Dundee and three of the men rowed the On October 20th, Grace died. Her on a particularly stormy night. boat back to the lighthouse, taking funeral in Bamburgh was a very The Forfarshire had been having with them Grace, the injured man grand affair. Hundreds of people, difficulties with its engines since and the woman. Grace stayed at rich and poor, crowded the pretty, it earlier set sail from Hull and the lighthouse and looked after the little Northumberland town to say disaster struck at 4am, when the survivors with her mother. Her goodbye. The next year, a fitting ship hit the rocks and within 15 father and two of the Forfarshire memorial to Grace was put up in St minutes had broken in two. crew returned for the other four Aidan’s churchyard in Bamburgh. men. Emotions Answers .