Maritime Archives - Page 6 of 7

Isobel Bennett

Australian marine biologist, particularly renowned as a pioneer of coral reef biology.

Helen Churchill Candee

American journalist, author, and social reformer, who achieved widespread recognition for her diverse career and her survival of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.

Vice Admiral Patricia Ann Tracey

The first woman in the Navy to be promoted to the rank of three-star admiral.

Dr Helen Battle

Trailblazing Canadian ichthyologist and marine biologist.

Superintendent of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command (1939–44), worked in the resettlement advice service of the British ministry of labour and national service (1945–8), and was chief administrative officer of the Women’s Land Army in its last years (1948–50).

Marie Tharp

Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer. In the 1950s, she worked with geologist Bruce Heezen to make the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.

Betsy Miller

During the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, Elizabeth Miller achieved the distinction of being the only woman before or since entered as Captain of a merchant vessel in the Lloyd’s British Registry of Tonnage.

Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz

Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the only woman in the Navy Nurse Corps to earn the rank of Commodore and the first non-physician to earn the role of Deputy Commander for Health Care Operations in 1984.