LLOYD'S Register Foundation Heritage and Education Centre (LRF HEC) launches a collaboration project to highlight the activities undertaken by women in shipping in the past few centuries.
According to the Lloyd's Register Foundation's website, the "Rewriting women into maritime history" project will collate the material that is spread across archives beginning within those in the City of London, and then expanding to the UK and Ireland, and internationally so that accounts of women in the shipping industry can be identified and placed in the public domain for the first time.
Third Officer Abigail Chin is one of the growing numbers of female officers onboard international ships. FILE PHOTO