POLISH SEAWOMEN
COOK’S WAR RECORD Long before the war there were women in the Polish merchant service. They shipped not only as nurses, stewardesses, and cooks, but .also as wifeless operators and doctors, and wherever .else they could find a niche in a seemingly exclusive men’s world. When war came, with danger from
surface craft, mine-infested seas, torpedoes and aerial attack, the women were given full opportunity to take shore jobs. No one resigned; all volunteered to return to sea. . Outstanding among them is Gospos'a, a bright-eyed, grey-naired little Polish woman who acts as cook on one of the large Polish' merchantmen. She is known in all the free ports of the world. She has 21,137 miles of sea travel behind her, half of which have been done in war-time. .Twice tor-
pedoed, picked up once by the French, once by the British, Gosposia holds a record of which any sailor might well be proud.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25426, 6 January 1944, Page 5
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