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Grace Darling is chiefly remembered for helping to rescue passengers from a ship in the nineteenth century by rowing a boat out to sea in a storm. Although her brothers went to the free school at Bamburgh Castle run by the Crew Trust, Grace did not. This light was further out to sea to protect shipping from the hazardous series of rocks and small islands.

The boilers had earlier leaked and the engines finally gave up leaving the vessel to drift southwards towards the shore in a howling gale. At quarter to 5 in the morning Grace spots the stricken ship from her window. It was not until 7 that she and her father spotted survivors on the reef. Her father Aged 52 and herself Aged 22 decide to set out in the family cobble boat to help as they feared that the lifeboats from nearby Bamburgh or North Sunderland would not be able to be launched in such bad weather.

They set off to approach the wreck from the south in the lee of the storm. Once there they found nine people alive including a Mrs. Dawson holding the bodies of her two dead children. The cobble could not accommodate them all and five people were taken off. They arrive back at the lighthouse by 9 a. On the 11th September, the Tuesday following the wreck the first inquest is held at Bamburgh under the initiative of Robert Smeddle, Secretary of the Crew Trustees.

It is convened at the House of Mr. Hugh Ross, now the Victoria Hotel and as the local coroner was away Smeddle pressed the services of the Newcastle Coroner. The jury, including some of the survivors, was hostile and there was no surprise at the result.