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Female Sailors Throughout History


ASA's Top 6 Female Sailors - American Sailing Association

Three teenagers: Abby Sunderland, Laura Dekker, and Jessica Watson would all set sail around the same time (2009-2010) and find their own way ...

5 Female Sailors So Badass You Can't Even - Military.com

Cmdr. Becky Calder · Astronaut Sunita Williams · Constructionman Camella J. Jones · Adm. Michelle Howard · Donna Tobias · Want to Learn More About ...

13 Top female sailors - YBW

In 2013, British sailor Jeanne Socrates became the oldest woman to sail solo round the world non-stop. This was the 70-year-old's third attempt ...

Guest Commentary: Women were more than just pirates in maritime ...

Women within maritime history have often been relegated to the Golden Age of Piracy (1650-1730) as stereotypes of disguised women joining ship crews and ...

Women Sailors Rock - 12° West - 12º West - Womens Sailing Clothing

In 1989, Tracy Edwards was the skipper of the first all female crew to sail around the world in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race on ...

New England Women at Sea 1845-1871

A similar name does appear in a list of whaling wives in Joan Druett's (Editor) “She Was a Sister Sailor (Mary Brewster); as Salome Davis or Mrs. Samuel F.

WIND & WOMEN - Women's Sailing Courses | Modern Sailing

The legacy of women in sailing dates back to the 1700s with infamous pirates Anna Bonney and Hannah Reed aboard the pirate sloop Revenge. Throughout history, ...

Top 5 Female Sailors of the Marine World

Among a number of such brave women pirates, Grace O' Malley considered being one of the best female sailors of the world as her life presents a ...

Why the hell are there women and girls in the Navy, when a sailor is ...

There may have been a few female sailors in the War of 1812 who were disguised as males at the time.

the experience of women whose loved ones went to sea

1. David Cordingly, Women Sailors and Sailors' Women: An Untold Maritime History (2001) and Suzanne J. Stark, Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail ...

Women Sailors and Sailors' Women: An Untold Maritime History

An Oxford-trained maritime museum curator, Cordingly (Under the Black Flag) writes back into naval history these and other women who went to sea with their ...

Navy Women History Page - NavyGirl.org

More than 5,700 women served as Navy officers (8% of the Navy's officer strength) and more than 37,000 enlisted women comprise 8% of the Navy's enlisted ranks.

Meet the fearless women sailors taking on the 'Everest of the seas'

These skippers are aiming to make record time in pro sailing's most challenging solo round-the-world race. British skipper Miranda Merron, 51, ...

Famous Female Sailors - Ranker

Shirley Ann Robertson, OBE (born 15 July 1968) is a British sailor and Olympic gold medallist. She made it into the history books by becoming the first British ...

International (and Historic) Women Sailors - Latitude38

Mary Ann Brown Patten was the first female commander of an American merchant vessel. Patten was the wife of Joshua, captain of the merchant clipper ship ...

International Women's Day: Celebrating the women in maritime history

Another brave woman was Anna Ivanova Shchetinina, a Soviet merchant marine sailor who entered the navigation department of the Vladivostek ...

National Women's Sailing Association | Providing a community for ...

IT'S TIME TO NOMINATE YOUR HERO! The Leadership in Women' s Sailing Award, presented by NWSA and BoatU.S.® began in 1999. The award ...

Women's America's Cup marks a new frontier for women's sailing ...

It wouldn't take long for female sailors to find success at the Olympic Games either, with Switzerland's Hélène de Pourtalès leading the way as ...

Record-Breaking Women in Sailing - Sømand

Record-Breaking Women in Sailing · 1. Lisa Blair - The First Woman to Sail Solo, Non-Stop, and Unassisted Around Australia and Antarctica · 2. Clarisse Cremer - ...

PUIG WOMEN'S AMERICA'S CUP HERALDS A NEW DAWN AS ...

... in the history of sailing, especially for women. When I was a little ... “With 12 teams of top female sailors from around the world, the ...