GRACE DARLING’S COBLE
RELICS PERMANENT HOME The coble in which Grace Darling, with her father, saved nine lives from the wreck of the Forfarshire in a terrible gale on September 5, IS3B, and won for herself an immortal place among the nation’s heroines, has been moved to Bamburgh, where it will have a permanent home. The coble is an open boat, 21ft long Dy 6ft wide;, It was the boat of the Longstone 'Lighthouse, on the Fame Islands, of which William Darling was the keeper, and in 1912 it was presented to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution by Lady John JoiceyCecil, on the understanding that it should remain in Northumberland Since then it has been at the Dove Marino Laboratory. Cullercoats. In 1924 it was proposed to bring tho boat on a visit to London, but it was found to be too frail for such a long journey. It has since been care fully repaired. Grace Darling is buried in Bamburgh Church. Lord Armstrong, the owner of Bamburgh Castle, has presented the institution with a piece of land overlooking the sea and facing the Farne lighthouse. He has also headed the subscription list of an appeal for the money to build a house on this site. Until this permanent home is complete the coble will be placed in a coach house in the village.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1069, 5 September 1930, Page 4
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224GRACE DARLING’S COBLE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1069, 5 September 1930, Page 4
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