Grace Darling was one of those people who gets thrust into the news because of something they do. Grace did not seek fame, but because she rescued people from a sunken ship – the Forefarshire – using just an open boat, she became a heroine.
Grace lived with her father who was a lighthouse keeper on the Farne Islands, just off the Northumberland coast. These were the rocks the Forefarshire struck one stormy night in September 1838.
Because they only had a rowing boat, they could not rescue more than five people at a time, so Grace and her father had to go back to the rocks on which the ship had foundered, time after time.
