Grace Darling participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 off the Farne Islands, coast of Northumberland. Photograph after W.B. Scott.

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Darling, William, -1865.

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Grace Darling participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 off the Farne Islands, coast of Northumberland. Photograph after W.B. Scott.