Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Seagoing duty
Associated Press · [ca. October 1972]
Ens. Rosemary Nelson, 24, of Walla Walla, Wash., gets her first sea duty aboard the hospital ship USS Sanctuary when it leaves Hunters Point Naval Shipyard at San Francisco. She is the Navy's first woman officer assigned a sea-going billet, and is to serve as the ship's disbursing officer. Here, she talks to Avis A. Robbinson, deck force seaman, right, from Simms, Mont.
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