She Captains by Joan Druett

Author:Joan Druett
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Maritime History
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2001-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

I will unfold a circumstance that does to love belong

Concerning of a pretty maid who ventur’d we are told

Across the briny ocean as a female sailor bold.

In February 1835, sixteen-year-old Ann Jane Thornton was summoned by the Lord Mayor of London to appear before him at Mansion House, because he had read about her in the papers and thought she might have been ill treated by the captain and crew of the ship where she worked. The shipmaster, Captain McIntire of the Sarah, was summoned, too, to give evidence on his own behalf. He had met Ann at St. Andrews in North America, he said. She had been dressed as a sailor, and he had engaged her in all innocence, giving her the job of cook and steward for the fair wage of nine dollars a month. The crew had been suspicious of her right from the start, he said, because she would not drink grog like a regular seaman. Then, they found her out for sure when they saw her washing herself in her berth, and reported to the captain that the cook was a girl.

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