Maritime Archives - Page 2 of 13

Sub-Lieutenant Masego Mosupye

The South African Navy’s first female engineering officer on the chemical engineering side

Sampriti Bhattacharyya

Indian-American engineer and businesswoman

Susi Pudjiastuti

Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Marion Rice Hart

The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering who went on to work in physics and geology as well as a career as an aviator

The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University and first woman to receive an MS and a PhD in engineering from the University of Florida (1962). She then got a job as a propellant and aerospace engineer for Rocketdyne Corporation and United States Naval Research Laboratory, developing solid fuel and engines which are still used in the space program today.

Anne Jane Thornton

1800s cross-dressing seafarer and subject of popular legend

Ashley Carline

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.