books.google.se - Out of Print for over 200 Years, the original text of three of the most remarkable naval biographies ever written. We know that women served as sailors in the Royal Navy as early as 1650. Unfortunately, what little we know of these women is based largely on second- and third-hand accounts and deductions....http://books.google.se/books/about/The_Lady_Tars_The_Autobiographies_of_Han.html?hl=sv&id=dgZ3k-W5aLkC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Lady Tars: The Autobiographies of Hannah Snell, Mary Lacy and Mary Anne Talbot