biography
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| lived:
| (1815–42)
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| biography:
| Heroine, born in Bamburgh, Northumberland, NE England, UK. She lived with her father, William (1795–1860), the lighthouse keeper on one of the Farne Islands. On 7 September 1838, she braved raging seas in an open rowing boat to rescue the survivors of the Forfarshire steamboat, which was stranded on one of the other islands in the group. |
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