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He died in 1903, aged 84. The current Seahouses lifeboat bears the name Grace Darling. The Seahouses Festival is an annual cultural event which began in 1999 as a small sea shanty festival. After a significant European funding grant from the Leader+ programme, in 2005, [1] it has grown into a more broadly based cultural celebration.
The Farne Islands are associated with the story of Grace Darling and the wreck of the Forfarshire.Grace Darling was the daughter of Longstone lighthouse-keeper (one of the islands' lighthouses), William Darling, and on 7 September 1838, when she was aged 22, with her father she rescued nine people from the wreck of the Forfarshire in a strong gale and thick fog, the vessel having run aground ...
@Martin of Sheffield: Hello Martin; thanks, this was my source - Historical Environment Survey: The Farne Islands p.40 - which I should have cited in the caption.--Barabbas1312 08:53, 26 February 2019 (UTC) Thanks for getting back to me. I've reverted the caption and added the citation.
The first ferry to cross Toronto Harbour to what are now the Toronto Islands was in 1833, using a boat called Sir John of the Peninsula. This was a four-horse team boat, operated by Michael O'Connor, between York and his hotel on the island (then still a peninsula), [11] known as the "Retreat on the Peninsula."
The Farne Islands had a long history of needing a light to warn ships of the many surrounding hazards. In 1673 King Charles II had instructed the landowners (the Dean and chapter of Durham) to grant a licence to Sir John Clayton and George Blake to erect a lighthouse on Inner Farne as part of a proposed network of beacons along the Northumberland coast; however the scheme never came to ...
In 1882, the Gidley Boat Works began manufacturing wooden plank boats on the shores of Georgian Bay. One early builder of board or "cedar strip" canoes was Tom Gordon of Lakefield, near Peterborough. [10] Over time, a number of boat-building companies grew up in the Peterborough area; [11] one was the Peterborough Canoe Company. A long-time ...
Michael Patrick Shiels March 28, 2024 at 8:01 AM If you are fortunate to have been to Portugal, a rare port tasting at Dusty’s Cellar, in Okemos at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4 may transport your ...
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