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Of maritime interest. A silver plated stuffing spoon relating to Grace Darling's daring rescue...
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Lot 19
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Of maritime interest. A silver plated stuffing spoon relating to Grace Darling's daring rescue mission.
c.1836.
The Fiddle pattern spoon engraved to the front of terminal with the words 'Steamship Forfarshire', 31.9cm long, together with a small selection of prints and newspaper cuttings relating to the sinking of the Forfarshire and the rescue of the passengers by Grace Darling, including a newspaper cutting from The Illustrated London News, dated June 10, 1865, on the death of William Darling (a lot)
Lot Footnotes
The rescue by Grace Darling of passengers of the Steam Ship Forfarshire on 7th September 1838 became one of the most famous shipwreck stories of the 19th century. Grace Darling, daughter of the keeper of the Longstone lighthouse on the Farne Islands, became a national celebrity when she rowed out with her father to rescue the 13 surviving passengers and crew from the stricken ship. Grace had seen the few survivors of the wreck on Big Harcar and had persuaded her father to attempt a rescue during the storm. Operating a boat designed for the use of three men, the pair successfully rescued the survivors and became the first recipients of the Silver medal issued by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (the future RNLI).
This silver plated stuffing spoon appears to be the only one recorded outside the Grace Darling museum in Alnmouth. The Museum also has an identical spoon (with the same apparently unrecorded set of pseudo hallmarks) as well as a soup ladle, a tablespoon, table knife, table fork and two parts of a tea set.
On October 2nd 1838, the Times recorded some of the objects from the Forfarshire ‘which the crew had picked up off the Farne [Islands] on the morning the vessel was wrecked as including… ‘a number of silver spoons etc.’ An alternative source for the spoon could be the ‘Sale of the Wreck of the Forfarshire…held on 17th October 1838 at North Sunderland where ’the deep interest attached to the vessel’s melancholy fate, and the remarkable incidents connected with it, drew together a numerous company […].and numerous purchases were made of articles belonging to the vessel by persons who intended to preserve them as relics.’
No catalogue for the auction of the wreck appears to have survived, if one were ever printed, so it is not possible to know whether any spoons were among the lots sold or whether this could be one of those pulled from the sea in the aftermath of the storm in September 1838.
(Taken from an article in The Finial, Volume 30/02, November/ December 2019)
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