Eily Keary
Eily Keary, Naval Architect, was the first woman to have her paper read to the Institution of Naval Architects.
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Blanche Thornycroft
Blanche Thornycroft was one of the earliest women to have a significant role in engineering in Britain, and the first woman to be elected to an Associate Membership of the Institution of Naval Architects.
Annie Frasier Norton
Annie Frasier Norton (1893-1918), from East Boston, joined the Navy in WWI, serving at Portsmouth Naval Yard.
Victoria Drummond
The first woman ship’s engineer and role model for women at sea, who were not able to follow in her wake until 10 years after she retired.
Julia Ann Shelton Shorey
Julia Ann Shelton was part of an influential Black family connected to local and national efforts to expand opportunities for African Americans after the Civil War, which brought her to the heights of the maritime community connecting San Francisco to the world.
June Townsend Gentry
June Townsend Gentry (Yuchi/Choctaw) served in the US Coast Guard during World War II, one of the 800 Native American women to join the US military.
Mary Ann Brown Patten
When her husband fell ill, she took command of a 1,600-ton clipper ship and navigated it through dangerous waters and brought it safely around Cape Horn to San Francisco.
Eleanor Prentiss Creesy
With her husband, she sailed around the world. In 1851, they decided to race several other ships sailing from New York to San Francisco aboard the clipper Flying Cloud. They broke the previous record by eleven days.
Albenia Martha Boole McKay
Designed fast clipper ships with her husband in the 1800s
Marya D Moses
Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County