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Grace Darling Museum Royal National Lifeboat Institute museum commemorates the life of lifeboat heroine Grace Darling who with her father rescued survivors from the shipwreck of the SS Forfarshire in 1838. This small museum in Bamburgh has the original boat used in the rescue on display. The Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh, Northumbria, houses a unique collection of artifacts that commemorates Grace's heroism. The museum is in desperate need of modernisation and with your help and support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we aim to raised £150,000. The restoration is under progress and the Museum will open again when completed next year. "THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING US"

Grace Darling Museum

The dedicated R.N.L.I. Lifeboat Service to rescue of mariners in distress started a long time ago, not because of shipping owners wishing to protect their assets, but because of the courage of one young woman.   Florence Nightingale's name is carved into British History, because of her ceaseless caring of wounded soldiers, during the Crimean War and Grace Darling's name will live on because of a deed on a violent stormy night in the nineteenth century.

On the eastern coast of England, at a place called Bamburgh a Lighthouse to warn sailors of the shallow rocks the keeper was busy trimming the wicks of the lamps and filling them with oil to ensure that the light shone as brightly throughout the darkness of the night.

When the lighthouse keeper's daughter observed a ship running aground during the storm and beginning to break up, Grace Darling ran down to the jetty and untied the longboat. She turned the boat towards the distressed vessel and began rowing out into the eye of the storm.

She rowed the boat into waves battered by the stinging salty spray and icy sleet, although wet to the skin and freezing and the boat being spun round by the raging sea her mind was set on to save those ships crew from the abyss of hell.

After what must have seemed an eternity for Grace she eventually reached the stricken ship and found the strength to pull those sailors inboard into the longboat before rowing them back to the safety of the lighthouse.

Nobody to this day knows how Grace found the courage and strength to do what she did on such  a horrendous night so long ago, but every time a R.N.L.I. Lifeboat is called out now Grace Darling's ghost goes with them.

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