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Great Britain - Shipwrecks: Collection of Grace Darling…
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Melbourne
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20-Oct-2019
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Great Britain - Shipwrecks: Collection of Grace Darling material including rare 1838 'Bamburgh Castle' broadsheet raising funds for an Annuity for the Heroic Grace Darling and her Father; books (3) including 'Grace Darling - The Heroine of the Farne Isles' (Southampton, 1875); postcard; and Rowntree chocolates tin. (Grace Darling (1815-1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter, famed for participating in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838: the paddlesteamer ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland; nine members of her crew were saved) (Qty 6)
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