WOMEN SAILORS
A strongly-built young woman leaning against the foremast of { a typical North Sea "tramp", steamer at, Hull blew a whistle with a shrill blast. The donkey-engine rattled and, high Aloft swung a" bundled ' load o't pit props. Burly Hull dockers ran to the woman's bidding. The young woman was the third officer of ,' the Kussian steamer Kresty&nin, - and a newspaper correspondent found her supervising the unloading of pit props from the' vessel in the Alexandra Docks there. Further along the deck stood three of the ship's deck erew —all women! Two of them wore dungarees, but when they saw the correspondent coming they vanished into a cabin and he saw one of them powdering her nose. The first officer, of the Krestyanin—a mere man—stated that part of the deck crew was composed of women, and the third officer was also a remarkably efficient woman. There is no scarcity of men for the ships, but large numbers of women are keen to serve on the soe\.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 6
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167WOMEN SAILORS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 23, 27 January 1934, Page 6
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