The history of the female shipwright
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The history of the female shipwright
National Maritime Museum, c2008
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First published in 1773
Further reading: p. 6
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Although official Admiralty instructions in the 18th Century stated that a Captain "is not to carry any Woman to sea, nor entertain any Foreigners to serve in the Ship, who are not Officers or Gentlemen, without Orders from the Admiralty", there is no doubt that the rule was being broken. Women did from time to time go to sea, and not always disguised as boys or men, although Mary Lacey was.
Mary Lacey's petition to the Admiralty in 1772 set forth her remarkable career. Disguised as a man, she was entered on board His Majesty's Fleet where, having served until the end of the war, she bound herself apprentice to the carpenter of the ROYAL WILLIAM for seven years up to 1766 and then served as a shipwright in Portsmouth Dockyard until 1772 when Their Lordships granted her the pension of a superannuated shipwright.
Mary Lacy's 1773 autobiography recounts her life disguised as a man, first as a servant and then as a shipwright, under the name of"William Chandler", after she ran away to sea at the age of fifteen.
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