National Maritime Day
It's been three-hundred years since pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read were captured, and their stories certainly didn't deter other women from living seafaring lives. In 1759, Mary Lacy assumed a new identity as William Chandler and took a job as an apprentice to the carpenter aboard a Royal Navy ship1. Even though women have been breaking barriers for centuries, the International Maritime Organization reports that women only represent 2% of the world’s 1.2 million seafarers2