A SHIP THAT NEVER GOES TO SEA.—Grace Darling is the name of this house, built in the shape of a ship, by the track that leads to the Bathing Beach, near Half Moon Bay, Stewart Island. Grace Darling, an English heroine, was the daughter of the lighthouse-keeper on Longstone, one of the Fame Islands. In 1838 the Forfarshire was wrecked near the lighthouse, and with her father she rowed out to the wreck in a heavy sea, rescuing nine persons. She died in 1842 of tuberculosis.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31614, 27 February 1968, Page 22
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86A SHIP THAT NEVER GOES TO SEA.—Grace Darling is the name of this house, built in the shape of a ship, by the track that leads to the Bathing Beach, near Half Moon Bay, Stewart Island. Grace Darling, an English heroine, was the daughter of the lighthouse-keeper on Longstone, one of the Fame Islands. In 1838 the Forfarshire was wrecked near the lighthouse, and with her father she rowed out to the wreck in a heavy sea, rescuing nine persons. She died in 1842 of tuberculosis. Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31614, 27 February 1968, Page 22
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