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Jan 20, 2012 · The more radical Edwardians noticed that there was a class bias against working class passengers surviving the wreck – the widespread celebration that women and children had gone first aboard the Titanic evaporated in the realisation that ‘women first’ might actually mean ‘ladies first’.
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Apr 20, 2015 · Unlike their male counterparts who were often depicted stunned but alive and staggering toward some kind of future, shipwrecked women were usually unconscious or dead, as in the painting The Storm by Théodore Géricault.
History of Maritime Women. Among the 37,000 shipwrecks recorded around the coast by English Heritage, including both vessel remains and documented losses, are stories showing female involvement in wreck events, a rich seam of social history.
- Who Was Grace Darling?
- The Wreck of The Forfarshire
- Rescuing Survivors on The Forfarshire
- Grace Darling, A Victorian Heroine
- Context
- Heroism and Gender
The daughter of a lighthouse keeper, Grace was born in Bamburgh on the mainland on 24 November 1815. She spent nearly all of her life on the Farne Islands, scrambling about with her eight siblings, of which she was the 6th, and being taught to read and write by her parents. Grace shared in her father William’s fondness for music, history, geography...
Grace’s father, William, was keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse on one of the islands. On the evening of 7 September 1838, while looking out of an upper window of the lighthouse during a raging storm, Grace spotted the wreck and survivors of the Forfarshire. The paddle-steamer was carrying around 40 cabin and deck passengers and had completely spli...
On that fateful September night in 1838, Grace could see the wreck of the Forfarshire being beaten by the waves. With her siblings away, Grace and her parents were the only people at the Lighthouse. Grace and her father thought it would be too rough for the lifeboat to set out from the nearby village of Seahouses, so they decided they would have to...
Grace was in almost every newspaper in Britain, both local and national and she was showered with honours. These included the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's Silver Medal for Gallantry and the gold medal of the Royal Humane Society. Her fame even prompted a donation of £50 from Queen Victoria. There were numerous visitors to the Longstone, al...
To understand Grace's fame, it is necessary to take into account the historical context of the time. It was a time of great progress and excitement in Britain and the Empire. Steam powered travel was just taking off, a young queen had ascended to the throne the year before, and despite some major unrest amongst the working class, Britain was enteri...
Grace’s actions were viewed as remarkable as they were unusual for her gender. Her brother would have been in her place had he not been away. Showing courage and risk-taking were viewed as particularly masculine traits. It was also considered quite a feat for Grace to steady the coble next to the rock as her father climbed out to get to the survivo...
Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper 's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 brought her national fame.
It’s a simple tale: a strong and courageous woman saved nine people from a shipwreck in 1838. Get the facts about Grace Darling and find out why we’re still telling her story more than 180 years later.
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Apr 12, 2012 · The belief that women and children are first to be saved when ships sink is largely a myth, a new study suggests. Analysis of survivors from 18 maritime disasters shows women "have a distinct...
