Vice Admiral Patricia Ann Tracey
The first woman in the Navy to be promoted to the rank of three-star admiral.
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Dr Helen Battle
Trailblazing Canadian ichthyologist and marine biologist.
Amy Curtis
Superintendent of the Women’s Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command (1939–44), worked in the resettlement advice service of the British ministry of labour and national service (1945–8), and was chief administrative officer of the Women’s Land Army in its last years (1948–50).
Marie Tharp
Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer. In the 1950s, she worked with geologist Bruce Heezen to make the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean floor.
Betsy Miller
During the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, Elizabeth Miller achieved the distinction of being the only woman before or since entered as Captain of a merchant vessel in the Lloyd’s British Registry of Tonnage.
Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz
Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the only woman in the Navy Nurse Corps to earn the rank of Commodore and the first non-physician to earn the role of Deputy Commander for Health Care Operations in 1984.
Jeanne Baret
French explorer and botanist who disguised herself as a man to go on an expedition and became the first known woman to circumnavigate the world
Laskarina Bouboulina
Heroine of the Greek Revolution of 1821-28
Jane Scharff
A graduate of the RUI, Jane Scharff gained a technical assistantship at the NMI in 1905, later becoming assistant naturalist. She took part in the Clare Island survey and became a recognised authority on the marine and fresh-water sponges of Ireland. She also wrote papers on coelenterates and corals.
Dr Cathy Dichmont
South African marine ecologist with over 20 years of experience in temperate and tropical marine ecosystems at international and regional levels. She was a key contributor to the bioeconomic model that aided the development of the Prawn fishing industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria.