WOMEN OFFICERS IN SHIPS
P. AND O. LINE RECRUITS FROM W.R.N.S.
Although it was common enough during the war to see women in executive positions on merchant vessels—usually in the Russian and the Norwegian merchant services, and, for a time, as coder officers in the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth on the trans-Atlantic run—it is rare in peacetime. „ . . The P. and O. Line, having regard for the excellent work performed by members of the W.R.N.S. in the war, has started recruiting stenographers and telephonists from former members of that service to serve aboard its larger vessels. The Stratheden, which is doing the Australia-England trip, has two women stenographers (ranking as junior officers), and four women telephonists (who hold rank as pettyofficers) in her ship’s company. Their dress resembles W.R.N.S. uniforms, but they wear the company’s insignia on their tricorn hats.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25248, 29 July 1947, Page 2
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