Coquet Island
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Coquet Island is a small island of about 6 hectares, situated 1.2 kilometres off Amble on the Northumberland coast, northeast England. It is included in the civil parish of Hauxley.
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The lighthouse
Coquet Island Lighthouse
The former optic from Coquet Island Lighthouse.
Grace Darling
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Grace Horsley Darling was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 brought her national fame. The paddlesteamer ra
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…with walls more than one metre thick, surrounded by a turreted parapet. The first keeper at Coquet Lighthouse was William Darling, the elder brother of Grace Darling. The lighthouse was initially provided with a large (first-order) fixed dioptric along with a set of mirrors (which were replaced with refracting prisms…
Portrait by Thomas Musgrave Joy, 1839
Lighthouse at Longstone: The upper window in the white ring was Grace Darling's bedroom, from which she saw the wreckage of the Forfarshire.
Grace Darling at the Forfarshire by Thomas Musgrave Joy
The replica headstone above the grave of Grace Darling and her family, St Aidan's churchyard, Bamburgh. The weathered original is on display at the RNLI Grace Darling Museum in Bamburgh.