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Almost any fisherman will tell you that
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the seas angry and is an omen of bad luck
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for everyone aboard. It was traditionally
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believed that women were not as physically
or emotionally capable as men, therefore
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they had no place at sea. It was also observed
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that when women were aboard, men were
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prone to distraction or other vices that may
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take away from their duties. This, among
other things, would anger the seas and doom
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the ship.
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This ancient superstition was deeply in-
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grained amongst sailors as truth. In Suzanne
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Stark’s book Female Tars she tells of an ex-
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ample in the Middle Ages when sailors gave
in to this fear with horrible consequences.
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At the height of a storm off the coast of Cornwall, Dufour Yachts IFC St Nicholas Trading Company 55
panicking men in a fleet of ships began to throw
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their female passengers to the sea. Over sixty women
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were drowned in this way in the hope of appeasing the
storm and saving themselves. Unsurprisingly, it failed
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to work and the majority of men, including their com-
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mander, Sir John Arundel, died.
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In later years the only woman happily accepted on
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board by many sailors was the ship’s figurehead. These
wooden figures in the bow of the ship have
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traditionally been used for luck for many centuries
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and were made to embody the spirit of the ship. They
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were carved into many designs, mainly mythological
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creatures. From the 1770s human figures became
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more frequently used, particularly women. Despite
being viewed as unlucky aboard a ship, women
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were perversely believed to be the best navigators.
Superstition
amongst
sailors said
that the female
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