This poster stamp shows a portrait of Grace Darling, an early lifeboat heroine. On September 7, 1838, she and her father rescued nine people stranded on a rock, survivors from the wrecked Forfarshire, of Dundee. The rescuers were awarded silver medals of the Life-Boat Institution, while Grace darling was also granted a gold medal by the Humane Society. Father and daughter fowed from Fame Lighthouse, in the teeth of a gale, to make the rescue. Grace Darling was born at Bamburgh, Northumberland, on November 24, 1815, and died on October 20, 1842. The stamp is from a painting by Thomas Musgrove Joy, now in the Art Gallery at Dundee, and the portrait is reproduced by kind permission of the Fraternity of Master seamen in Dundee.
Sea Breezes January 1952