Perils of the deep : being an account of some of the remarkable shipwrecks and disasters at sea during the last hundred years . m with a forcethat literally rent the clothes from their persons, andreduced them to a state of utter exhaustion. Towards morning the cries of the unfortunatepeople on the wreck were heard by Grace HorsleyDarling, who, with her father, Mr. W. Darling, keptthe outer Fame lighthouse. Grace awoke her father,and as soon as day broke he launched his boat, andprepared to go to the rescue. But noticing the stateof the tide and the weather, the old man hesitated toproceed til
Perils of the deep : being an account of some of the remarkable shipwrecks and disasters at sea during the last hundred years . m with a forcethat literally rent the clothes from their persons, andreduced them to a state of utter exhaustion. Towards morning the cries of the unfortunatepeople on the wreck were heard by Grace HorsleyDarling, who, with her father, Mr. W. Darling, keptthe outer Fame lighthouse. Grace awoke her father,and as soon as day broke he launched his boat, andprepared to go to the rescue. But noticing the stateof the tide and the weather, the old man hesitated toproceed till his heroic daughter, having discoveredthat some living people were still clinging to the 1?2 PERILS OF THE DEEP. wreck, seized an oar and stepped into the boat. Theold man followed her, and together they rowed off tothe wreck, through a sea in which a boat could hardlybe expected to live. The father, with much difficulty,and after many attempts, succeeded in landing onthe rock ; and, to save the boat from being dashed to-pieces, the daughter rowed off and on amidst thefurious billows, which, but for her dexterity in the. guidance of the little coble, would have hurled it infragments among the breakers. By the exercise ofthe utmost skill and caution, the nine survivors onthe wreck, consisting of five of the crew and fourpassengers, were got into the boat and conveyed tothe lighthouse. Here their wants were supplied forsome days by the same kind hands which had de- AMONG THE BREAKERS. 173 livered them from death, since, owing to the state ofthe weather, the mainland could not be reached tillthe Sunday. The number of persons lost in the Forfarshire wasabout forty-five ; those saved amounting to eighteen—nine in the boat, and nine rescued by GraceDarling and her father. Only five of these werepassengers, out of more than forty that were knownto have embarked at Hull. Mr. Walter White, in his book on Northumberlandand the Border gives an interesting and picturesquedescription of
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