AN ALL-FEMALE CREW
NAVAL HISTORY IN THE MAKING (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, Sept. 9. A new naval shore establishment was recently inaugurated " somewhere in England " with the ceremony usual on such occasions. Since every one in the naval service has to be " borne on the books of one of his Majesty's ships" before they can be subject to naval discipline, naval shore establishments are nominally ships, and the process of starting one of them follows the procedure for commissioning a ship, one item of which is an address by the captain to the ship's company. In this particular establishment, besides the captain and officers, the only naval personnel who had yet joined were 47 Wrens. It was to them that the captain had to address his commissioning speech. This is, so far as is known, the first occasion on which one of his Majesty's ships has been commissioned with an exclusively female crew.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24421, 5 October 1940, Page 18
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154AN ALL-FEMALE CREW Otago Daily Times, Issue 24421, 5 October 1940, Page 18
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