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As a novice otherwise known as a "Maiden" despite my gender, I used to row in the 60's with blades like that. Since then they have been transformed and today the blades are very different from those. Lovely photograph of fine looking young ladies and a wonderful explanation of the circumstances, well done ANMM.

Thanks folks! A great set of images from the formative years of women's rowing in Australia.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] It is funny you should come back to these images Quasymody - I have been doing some research on dear Trixie. We have a photo album of hers on display in the museum and hey presto! It is open to the photo that appears in the 1933 AWW article so it is her crew! When I get the chance to view the album in depth I will let you know the names, it appears that each pic has info on the back just hard to get to currently... Thanks so much for the articles, locking them away into our catalogue :)

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] These are great! I am sure that in image vn6194415 thats one of the Riley sisters on the right probably Esme - (one of the Riley girls appears centre of our photo too). Gorgeous photo of the four girls carrying their coach!

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Thanks QM, we've added it to our records. Lovely to see more photos of the girls emerging!

Abigail (Abby) Aldrich Rockefeller The August 16, 1918 Evening World notes Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Driving First Spike Into the Keel of the U. S. Trawler Fish Hawk. Though that photo/article was probably at the boat's launching, not keel laying. The June 15 issue of Shipping noted that Fish Hawk was nearly all planked out and that launching would likely be in a few weeks. The July issue of The Rudder notes that Fish Hawk is the second of six planned trawlers for the East Coast Fisheries Company built in Maine by the Portland Shipbuilding Company and that Fish Hawk is a sistership to the first, the Kingfisher. The Rudder article includes some good plan and profile drawings of the boats. In the September, 1919 issue of The American Marine Engineerwe learn that while Kingfisher was sunk by a U-Boat during the war, Fish Hawk and her sisterships were still bringing fish into New York and the 6th in the series was about to begin construction.

Some photos of the Fish Hawk from 1919: mainehistory.pastperfect-online.com/32314cgi/mweb.exe?req... Fish Hawk as a derelict vessel in Noank, CT: connecticuthistoryillustrated.org/islandora/search/%22fis...

Looks like she is enjoying herself.

It looks like this ship was actually the Albatross. This photo appears in a Rockefeller Foundation publication with the caption: "Abby Aldrich Rockefeller holds the hammer that she used to drive a bolt during construction of the “Albatross” in Portland, Maine, in mid August 1918." Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, New York City www.rockarch.org/publications/newsletter/nl2000.pdf at p. 11.

Albatross built at same shipyard as Fish Hawk: Portland SB, South Portland ME, O.N. 217411 Albatross East Coast Fisheries Co Trawler GT 384 Delivery1918 Wrecked Diamond Shoals 1940 www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/719thcentur... Wreck: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?236463 about the loss cause lost: ran aground (wrecked) date lost: 21/02/1940

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