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Laura Dekker
Dutch solo sailor
Anna Shchetinina
Soviet sea captain (1908–1999)
Abby Sunderland
Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor
Aud the Deep-Minded
9th-century Icelandic settler

Mary Ann Brown Patten
American sailor
Marwa Elselehdar
Egyptian ship captain
Kirsten Neuschäfer
South African yachts person
Charmian London
American writer (1871-1955)
Maud Fontenoy
French ocean rower and sailor
Molly Kool
Canadian sailor (1916-2009)
Tami Oldham Ashcraft
American sailor and author

Belinda Bennett
cruise ship captain from Saint Helena
Anne Jane Thornton
English sailor

Mary Lacy
british sailor, shipwright and memoirist
Rusla
Rusla, also known as the "Red Woman" from Middle Irish Ingean Ruagh, was a legendary Norwegian shield-maiden mentioned in the Gesta Danorum or "History of the Danes" of Saxo Grammaticus and in the Irish annals. According to Saxo, Rusla was the daughter of a fifth or sixth century king of Telemark called Rieg, and sister of Tesandus (Thrond), who was dispossessed of his throne by a Danish king named Omund. Rusla formed a pirate fleet to attack all Danish ships as revenge for the affront to her brother. Rusla was always accompanied by another woman, Stikla, who was her deputy in all raids. Stikl