Maritime Archives - Page 2 of 13

Anne Jane Thornton

1800s cross-dressing seafarer and subject of popular legend

Cmdr. Ashley Carline, a surface warfare officer, served as the Chief of Naval Operations’ Flag Aide from 2018 –2020. She is the first Black woman to serve as Aide-de-Camp for two different Chiefs of Naval Operations. Carline went on to serve as a Navy legislative fellow.

Elizabeth Carrington Pope

Elizabeth Pope was an Australian marine zoologist highly-regarded for her research on the effect of sea temperatures and latitude on the distribution and abundance of intertidal organisms on rocky shores.

Virginia Jenness Millett Apocada

Virginia Jenness Millett Apocada served in the US Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service during WWII.

Beatrice Ball

Newspaper accounts from 1941 describe her as “an expert pistol shot, a rodeo rider, a professional basketball player and coach, a physical director, a schoolma’m, a law school graduate, and a trained detective”—and all before she was 39 years old.

Barbara June Stone

Barbara June Stone served in the US Navy WAVES program as a yeoman third class during World War II

Florence L Johnson

Florence L. Johnson served in the WAVES during WWII and later became an advocate for veterans and Gold Star Mothers after her son’s death in the Vietnam War.

Captain Wendy B Lawrence

American astronaut and naval pilot

Yona Owens

Petty Officer 3rd Class Yona Owens was instrumental in securing the right for women to serve aboard US Navy ships.

Captain Lisa Nowak

American astronaut and naval captain