Following its successful launch at the International Maritime Organization last year, the SHE_SEES exhibition has taken up a year's residency at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard – home of the world-famous historic ships HMS Victory and Mary Rose.
The exhibition is part of Rewriting Women into Maritime History, a cross-industry project led by Lloyd's Register Foundation which tells the stories of maritime women past and present.
Nautilus International is one of the partners in Rewriting Women, and visitors to the SHE_SEES exhibition can learn about three of the earliest female members of the Nautilus predecessor unions MNAOA and REOU. These 'officer pioneers of the 1970s' are deck officer Linda Craig Forbes, engineer officer Marion Pettigrew and radio officer Rose King.
The displays also feature many other trailblazing women in a variety of maritime roles, including female Nautilus members working at sea today.
Located in Boathouse 4 at the Historic Dockyard – which also serves as the dockyard's Boatbuilding & Heritage Skills Training Centre – the exhibition opened on 2 August to strong media interest.
Louise Sanger of Lloyd's Register Foundation told BBC News: 'We're thrilled to be bringing SHE_SEES to Portsmouth, one of Britain's most significant cities when it comes to naval history. When we started working on this project, we had one mission in mind: to set the record straight on women's contributions to maritime, now and throughout history.'
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