Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?
via theguardian.com
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Finding herself in charge of her sick husband’s clipper, a self-taught working-class teenager overcame storms, icebergs and a disloyal first mate to get her ship to safety No one knows exactly what Mary Ann Patten said in September 1856 when she convinced a crew on the verge of mutiny to accept her command as captain. […]