“THE SAILOR GIRL”
FRENCH WOMAN OF 70 PARIS, Aug. L The Ministry of Merchant Marine has granted a substantial pension to a women of 70 who, it has been ,(Uncovered, has spent the greater part of her life as a sailor. Mile. Tual was known among the fishermen off the coast of Brittany as “the sailor girl,” and gave them an example by her extraordinary energy and courage. At (he age of 12 she started accompanying her father on fishing expeditious off the stormy island of Ushuni, to the west of Brest. When her father died in 1000 she continued to go out with the fishing fleet, but. her name was not officially inscribed in the list of the Ministry of Merchant Marine owing to her sex. After working for many years as a “hand” she obtained a vessel of her own and captained it most efficiently. Only five years ago, when she was 65, the “sailor girl” was still at the helm of her ship.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18193, 14 September 1933, Page 9
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