Pearl Wallace
Australia’s first female riverboat skipper
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Roberta Eike
Roberta Eike, a biology graduate student, risked her Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) fellowship by sneaking aboard a WHOI vessel after repeatedly being denied opportunities to go to sea.
Dr Dora Henry
During World War II, the U.S. Navy was trying to find a solution for “fouling”—when barnacles attach to ship hulls en masse, which slows the ship and increases fuel consumption. Yet when Dr. Dora Henry, the leading expert in the country, if not the world, on barnacles offered her services to help with the research, the men in charge declined.
Betty Bunce
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) finally had to let a woman on board a research vessel in 1959 when oceanographer Betty Bunce secured funding for an expedition with herself as chief scientist—no Bunce meant no funding and therefore no expedition.
Lt. Commander Brenda Robinson
Lt. Cmdr. Brenda Robinson became the first Black woman to become a U.S. Navy naval aviator when she earned her Wings of Gold in 1980.
Loisette Marsh
Loisette Marsh was one of Australia’s few echinoderm taxonomists.
Jessie Lawler
Merchant Navy seawoman killed during WWII
Elizabeth Gleeson
Merchant Navy seawoman killed during WWII
Catherine McWatt Armstrong
Merchant Navy seawoman killed during WWII
Hannah Baird
Merchant Navy seawoman killed during WWII