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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], A female sailor. (search)
A female sailor. -- A Romantic Story.--A young person in sailor's attire was brought before Justices Osborne, at the Tombs, last Friday, on a charge of being a female in male attire. The prisoner at once confessed that the suspicions against her were well founded, and stated that her name was Bridget Delancey, that she was about sixteen years of age, and that her parents resided in the county of Clare, Ireland. About three years since, she said she had formed an attachment for a young sailor who had been visiting her father's house in Ireland, and had promised to marry him, but her parents would not consent. She then purchased a sailor's garb and shipped on board a vessel bound for this country, in the hope of discovering her affianced lover; but she was not successful. Having acquired a taste for a seafaring life, however, she continued to retain her male attire, and made three more voyages to this city — no one suspecting that the stout, hardy looking sailor was a female.