SEAFARING MAID
OIL TANKER’S CAPTAIN. MONTREAL, Canada. When the shipping season for the port of Montreal opens this spring, a new captain will be on the bridge of the good ship Adelphie, a 125-ton oil tanker. The skipper, and owner as well, will be Francoise Le May, a pretty, dark-eyed French-Canadian girl. She has spent all of her twentythree years of life as a seafaring maid, having taken her first voyage at the age of three months with her father, who has now retired and transferred the ownership of the Adelphie to his daughter. Last year this energetic young lady sat for her master’s papers and passed the examination with flying colours. The examination for a captain’s ticket, even for a river freighter which plys the St. Lawrence', gateway to the Great Lakes, is an extremely difficult test. The young mariner is anxious to go further but must serve two years on the freighter before she is eligible to sit for her master's ticket on a passenger vessel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1938, Page 2
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168SEAFARING MAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1938, Page 2
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