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3 unusual facts about Bessie Hall


Bessie Hall

Her father taught her Celestial navigation and ship handling as she assisted him in plotting voyages.

However she safely brought the ship to the Irish Sea where they picked up a pilot who took the ship into Liverpool where they arrived on May 12 just as Capt. Hall and the mate began to recover.

In 1870, Bessie Hall and her father arrived in New Orleans from Liverpool aboard the 1444-ton ship Rothesay to load a cargo of cotton.



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