Show i c P j t t 1 I 1 t fc- fc till f C l 4 Ii I fi r r d a w f y 1 D bel S O OD D ed f S i a atAr A. A S1 a- a N. N t S' S I r n Jennie Holmes Crocker o c er tAr A. A t I 11 m r N a Qualifies for or Title of o Mistress 1 h W T f. f 1 H t Q 1 tt I I tr 1 o of Sailing Vessels by Twenty t i 7 a l t tc o f t w t y c I 4 t t h j i 1 J A I s t h Years o of Service ce Before the theAnd r. r Jr v Sr I y r A 4 w J j t Z f s. s r lj j r f li M And And Hopes to Go o 2 i. I l M n t G t t i is I i i ji is- is a v J J t s Down Her Ay A- A c y PP 4 I J s' s 4 t Ship f II Vl r y it J e 7 j L I i ift tr u X tN ig 11 t i- i t w r. r Some Day Day iI o Ib L t- t ft j 4 o. r vY t ij J s J U S r M ff Hn g Y r J i v 1 I t t 4 v l y j jv j v C t t d F fC iY i v 4 l 1 t fo o J I i t N L r. r I 74 A I R 9 f 1 l r r y Jl ik 1 1 f A i n 7 f m i r. r yr NS i f f t fi 7 s t rp I 4 4 zt w m wJ Bw A v k 1 Cf LO I. I 21 v J y A iI q i i I F A k r f t r j j J i 9 S1 4 1 I SI I N l tit t t 4 t s. s r r. r g W 1 F W 0 t L. L f t Q l r. ry 00 iii ww Mj fj ii i i n r r P t j. j 9 it 0 j v. v k Not every windjammer can t s I r Lt 6 boast two captains but the Jennie i v 1 1 t i j d Crocker is so blessed and w when en the tv 1 t c. c j. j I schooner puts to sea she carries two t r v ha T a 15 s lt W r m i f dui duly ulY licensed and qualified d ski skippers w i ii f i f. f I in m the persons of Je Jennie me Crocker Cracker Q iY 1 l f II fI I f f vr Y 1 Aw 1 t 7 Jr d Y an and d h her h husband b and ff v er r us Nelson A. A f lt t vY r f c f J f P Crocker JI A i. i I. I i s f t YR r f i J ff o A. J t M Co C AY J Y i. i V I r- r t z a f 1 f 1 I must go downto down to the seas again agan X ii f F J v to the lo lonely elY s sea ea and and the sky A 9 fp t i i Y AI V I And nd all alZ 1 I ask is tsa a tall tol l ski ship and a astar I i L v star to steer he her by K l 1 o J k i Ji jt h f f tf I I rf j I o f. l I I Y i e Ii jI y I l I It r r THE HE first woman skipper the very c. c first to be licensed as a'S a master of sailing vessels Mrs Jennie Holmes Crocker sings this little song Although Mrs Crocker first went to tea sea nearly learly twenty years ago never had had she Ehe thought of applying for a license as s e captain until recently F For r years she has known what the duties of a sailing captain were and a number of times she has taken charge of the vessel when her husband Captain C Nelson A. A Crocker er has been ill ill Well Nell Jennie you know as long as you ou can get a license you might as well have it said a friend to the first woman sea captain After an examination w which consumed con the better part of a day she was told that her license would be be forthcoming within a month Captain Nelson A. A Crocker husband r of the first woman ski skipper peer of sailing craft encouraged his wife to take the test and apply for a license I You Youcan can hang it in a frame in the cabin like folks do their college diplomas diplo diplo- diplomas mas he told his wife wife this this captain who k admits in private at any rate that women make better skippers than Nelson A A. A Crocker men and his captain captain captain cap cap- tain wife Jennie Holmes Holme'S Crocker are masters of the masted four-masted schooner the Jennie Crocker the former Ruth Martin whose name was changed by bythe bythe bythe the husband-captain husband in honor honorof of his wife fe GALES ALES tempests hurricanes hurricane's and the rest of the dread sea orgies those dreaded by landlubbers at least have no especial horror borror attached to them Mrs Crocker says F Im happier when were we're out at sea and a storm comes up than the average aver aver- average age woman is is when she's winning high d stakes stake's at bridge or dancing with the catch of the season Fear Fea Haven't had it yet In fact I feel more safe on the water than I do on land There 4 is not half as much chance of an accident accident acci acci- dent by collision on the water as there is on land Im I'm getting shy land-shy really The Jennie Crocker is after all al almost al al- most a family boat Besides her two captains husband and wife theres there's the steward Charles A. A Crocker father of Captain N. N A. A Crocker himself an old salt of almost a lifetime and the engineer engi veer neer Leonard Sawyer of Seymour 4 Conn who is Mrs Crockers Crocker's nephew On Ona Ons a s recent trip to Florida where the Jennie Crocker goes for lumber Mr Crockers Crocker's nephew Charlie Delaney held the engineers engineer's en en- engineers engineer's engineers i post but Charlie found out he ha was was essentially a a landlubber and went back to live in Boston y We have often had some somo relative with us said Mrs Crocker Take for instance Ralph Delaney Charlies Charlie's brother who lives now in a suburb of Boston He was with his uncle and me for two years He was different froma from a Charlie The sea fascinated him I didn't urge Charlie to stick to it cause I think a fellow knows pretty well after one trip whether he wants to follow the sea Then there was the late lato Harold Delaney brother of these two boys who was drowned while with his uncle To obtain a mental picture of i Jennie Holmes Crocker you want Vant to o think of a slightly built thoroughly thorough y l f n r j 3 4 And a very proud 4 woman oman was Mrs I 9 Jennie Crocker when she was given i ij 0 r fyr her skippers skipper's license j and became in fact Y as well wel as in title ii Jennie Gales tempests hurricanes and th the rest of the dreaded fo a y w-G w ea sea orgies have no special horror hor t t y attached to them for Cap n J Jennie Crocker Im happier when out at sea and a storm th than the thee she r. r Y W comes up says n e jj j i- i woman is when she's y fi 1 average s' s r i t D winning high stakes at bridge bridges s ii ti sy catch h of f cat 1 x Y or dancing with ti the The sea has a claim on the whole f p 3 the season family and Charlie Delano Delaney Delancy Yf nephew 4 i i r nt of f C Cap SVinn 1 n n Crocker 1 10 is c I i L r nt of f C Cap SVinn 1 n n Crocker 1 10 is ap one crew He is shown in the e c ethe the boy wearing a white whit I womanly person with flaming red hair and eyes as a's blue as the water she loves so well It wouldn't do for a moment to think of Jennie as the type of woman who is is referred to as being masculine masculine masculine mas mas- culine the kind that dons a tight-fitting tight tailored coat suit low-heeled low tan walking walking walk walk- walking ing shoes screws her hair up in a tight knot and pulls a mans man's slouch hat down over her ller ears Mrs Jennie Crocker first woman skipper gives a thought to feminine finery as do the majority of women on land Her lIeI toilette is aS becoming as that of a It woman who lives liveson on land Jand and who goes out in soc soci society sty ty IT TT T WAS on a return voyage from Africa that Jennie was called on to meet what was perhaps the greatest greatest great great- est te-st te of her nautical career Captain Crocker while in Africa had contracted one of those greatly feared tropical fevers and for three days was una unable le leto to leave his bunk It was dur during ng this period which might have developed into a tragic one if not fatal that Mrs Crocker had to assume virtual control of the ship the schooner Annie R. R Heid Held ritter To add to Jennies Jennie's trying situation situ the weather man had sent upon them a hurricane Captain Nelson wasso wasso was wasso so ill he couldn't give a coherent answer an to even the simplest sort of question It was up to Mrs Crocker and the mate mato to carry cairy the vessel through the the- storm and try to relieve the captain of his agonizing pain and destroying fever r. r J III I had bad to go to the helm belm There was t UL Her s cap r rs s r I t f r H Hy y l s 9 t z w wt t The master four Jennie Crocker not only has the distinction of two captains but she also has the I of being sailed by a husband and wife who are part owners nothing else to do I hate to think of it even It-even even years today today years afterward There was my husband rolling lolling and tossing in his bed with that aw awful ul fever a storm raging and on top of t this is we had a amate amate amate mate who didn't know as much as he should have known Well Well Well-I I suppose if I hadn't been lucky and if the Fates hadn't been pretty darn good to us we wouldn't be here today I 1 calculated the latitude and longitude longitude longi longi- tude from the sun readings and kept us on our course despite the hurricanes and to use the slang that was some hurricane hurricane hurricane hurri hurri- cane too but the Annie R. R lay to somehow and we rode out of it All the while I was vas actually running the ship I was worrying about Captain Nel Nel- eon son poor poor fellow I never lever had seen a sicker man than he was And after all aU I was no licensed captain then I had no legal right I guess to take charge the mate should have done it but he It was good I knew something about sailing a 8 ship wasn't it schooner Jennie Crocker is a TIlE THE master four-master with a net tonnage of tons or thereabouts She was built in 1920 at Portland Me and is the property prop erty of the Woodstock Lumber Company Company Company Com Com- pany pany one of the larger of the New England England England Eng Eng- land firms For the last eight months the Jennie Crocker has been making regular trips from eastern ports to Port St. St Joe Fla hauling lumber on the return return re turn east One of the features of this schooner 1 1941 1814 24 by 1 Ledger Company f 1 1 y The Call of the tIle Sea ea c HF s lea ea gets in ill your THE JL blood says Jennie the first woman to be licensed by Uncle Sam Sant as the tile mas master tel or mistress of sailing craft I once thought there was some way of curing folks of se sea fever fever but now I believe that if its it's in your blood theres there's no use fighting it Fear Fem Haven't had it asyet asyet as asyet yet yet in twenty years' years sailing Matter of fact with all the automobiles trolley cars cm's and airplanes on land the sea is much safer No iNo I 1 have no no fear of death at sea Somehow or other I believe that when it comes time for me to die Id I'd rather rathel be out there somewhere somewhere some some- where with just the water and the sky around me is the financial interest in her of Captains Captains Captains Cap Cap- Jennie and Nelson Nelson- A. A Crocker The company that owns her gave the tha two captains an opportunity to buy in last spring when she slie was being reconditioned reconditioned and refitted While Captain I. I l' l r I r I Ii r 5 r Nelson A A. A Crocker F t has been in m charge w of many a sailing J vessel since he was f I first made made a master mas mas master 31 ter of th the schooner l Atlantic n at t th the e t tage age o of seventeen he feels that s the J Jennie nnie Crocker is more rr like home than any other he has ever been on a Jennie has never lever not in all aU these twenty years removed her ber w wedding wedding wed wed- d. d r t ding ring She believes if more women If never took took them off their married lift life it would last longerI longer I I have yet to see the laundry soap a I that will hurt a wedding ring says t y 1 1 Jennie I guess Ive I've done dona a f little manual labor in the twenty years Ive I've been going to sea If I can scrub f decks with my wedding ring on I guess tho the average society woman can wear hers when she's dancing or playing cards My motto for all married folks is Pull on the same rope for the minute the wife or the husband starts pulling l lon j jon on different ropes theres there's bound to be trouble I 1 dont don't condemn modern society I 1 I really dont don't know a lot about it it- it J. J but Im I'm not one of these persons wh who 1 think the modern generation is is' going t to th the devil All I would like to see is women try to meet their husbands half way Let them give a little more and take less s. s Many a divorce is not a as n necessary essary a as people think nowadays q Captains Nelson A. A and Jennie H. H Crocker have a bungalow in Saugus s t v. v Mass a Boston suburb and it may be ba alp t that w when en they cant can't go to sea cea any 1 ta longer they will retire there to live the tha remainder of of their life lifer It is a seven seven- sl room house nicely furnished but at f present is leased for a n years year's period fa faWe We bought it two years ago Jennie said but f somehow ever since sinca the weve we've ve had it weve we've wished we I a j dont dont don't know but I guess its it's useless for h seafaring folks to try to live on on land I get s sort rt of panicky every very time I stay may t ashore more than thaI a 8 week The nearest weve we've ever found to happiness has has been been j at sea You set se see I cant can't help loving the tha f sea My Iy father the tIle late Edgar Holmes e was a sailor all his life My grandfather grand father built sailing ships up in Maine 4 It was back in the little town of Ma Mai Me that Jennie Holmes A and nelson Telson Nelson Crocker went to school to to to- r i gether Here is another of those red schoolhouse on the hill romances Captain Cap Capes 1 tain tamn Nelson says he never had another sweetheart and Mrs Crocker acknowledges edges the same So sincere a love is 1 Nelson j S Captain Crockers Crocker's for his wife that many a time he has refused a job as captain on steam craft because there 1 the captains captain's wife is js not allowed to go I along q Id rather have a windjammer and fr i keep Jennie with me men me he says 3 f 1 |