1. Edith Sowerbutts, Memoirs of a British Seaman, p.198
2. Ibid., p. 213.
3. Ibid., p. 4.
4. Maida Nixson, Ring Twice for the Stewardess, John Long, 1954 p. 38.
5. Ibid., p. 130.
6. Sowerbutts, Memoirs of a British Seaman, p. 12.
7. Ibid., p. 16.
8. Nancy Cunard, untitled manuscript in the form of a journal, kept from 31 July to 21 August 1941. The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library, University of Texas at Austin.
9. Ibid.
10. ‘Woman Ship’s Officer: She Escaped Bombs and Torpedoes’ Evening Standard, LSE Archives, June 1940.
11. Anon., ‘A Woman on the High Seas’, unattributed article in Woman Engineer magazine, 1941.
12. Sowerbutts, op.cit., p. 42.
13. ‘Forgotten Women of the Sea’, Daily Herald, 4 June 1942.
14. ‘Women in Shipbuilding’, The Times, 16 June 1943.
15. Martha Gellhorn, ‘The First Hospital Ship’, in The Face of War, Granta Books, 1998, p. 119.
16. Nixson, op.cit., p. 149.
17. ‘Cunard Pays Tribute to War Service”, unattributed article in The Maritime Executive 24.5.2015