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2 days ago

Pregnant, 19 and facing down a mutiny: how did Mary Ann Patten steer her way into seafaring lore?

Mary Ann Patten, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, seized command during a storm off Cape Horn, quelled a mutiny, and navigated a clipper to San Francisco.
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