Flying Cloud
Book description
In 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud -- traveling from New York to San Francisco in only eighty-nine days. This swift passage set a world record…
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When we think of seafarers’ wives, too often we envision them up on lonely widow’s walks, looking out to sea and waiting for their men to return. We don’t think of them as heroines in their own right, but Eleanor Creesy was an exceptional woman by any standard. Eleanor grew up in the New England fishing center of Marblehead, Massachusetts, and studied weather, the ocean, and astronomy in the mid-19th century. When her husband became captain of The Flying Cloud on its maiden voyage, he took Eleanor along so he could utilize her expertise and she rose to the occasion,…
From Darlene's list on women at sea through history (including some pirates).
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