Grace Darling

This is the true story of Grace Darling a girl who became a famous heroine in Scotland.This story is described by two scene.

One scene is a passenger's point of view on the Forfarshire. Forfarshire is called a good modern steamship and strong by people, but their engine was too old. Another scene is a young woman's point of view. She works in a lighthouse with her family.

The Forfarshire journeys from Hull to Dundee in Scotland. It came across storm and ship engines was stopped. Then it crashed into rocks and was shipwrecked near coast. there was lighthouse near that Grace Darling works in.
 

And Grace Darling found ship's passengers on rocks. Then she decided to help courageously.

Two scene become one finally. This story is suspensive and interesting.

Grace Darling

Image by Steve & Jemma Copley via Flickr

This story is the true story, but I don't think so. Because Darling and his daughter had a very strong responsibility and unbelievable energy for rescue.

You can find a lot of article about "Grace Darling" in the internet. There are over seventy thousand article at the internet! I think she was a famous heroine at England.

This is a image of the Longstone Lighthouse.

After Reading 2

Find and answers to this crossword in the story.

Across

1. Grace watched the ship through a telescope.

4. The ship was going xxxxx, from Hull to Dundee.

6. The name of ship. Forfarshire

9. You row a boat with two of these. oars

12. Daniel Donovan's job. engineer

13. Land which is not an island. mainland

14. To move a boat with oars. row

15. The ship was wrecked in 1838.

Down

2. The Darling family lived in this. lighthouse

3. Grace put in the big lantern. oil

5. Grace Darling was a famous heroine

7. Daniel Donovan called Grace Darling an 'Angel'.

8. A man who works on a ship. sailor

10. The floor on a ship. deck

11. Longstone Island was one of the Farne Islands.