The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-03
THIRD MATE A VIKING GIRL
SHE BRINGS THE Old BARK An
GERONA N AT THE HOOK.

Miss Lincoln GJertson IL the Lady's Name
and Her Hair II Of Morse G0ld The
skipper IL Her Fsther and He Named
Her for our Abraham II Years Ago.
From the neighborhood Of the fjords OF
Norway. celebrated in song and story by
the Biornsens and others, there came yes
terday a real vikipg girl with just as real
golden hair hanging down her back.
She Is the third mate of the old iron Nor
wegian bark Angerona. which originally
flew the British flag and has seen service in
all the seven sens since 1874.
The girl = ~. hut does not look il. She
Her father. Capt Gjertsen. who took his
little daughter to bear him company when
she was still a creature in short dresses.
has a strong admiration for Lincoln as a
pioneer and thought he would make another
pioneer OF his girl in the nautical world
She used to sail all sorts OF craft in the
fjords OF Norway. just below the Arctic
Circle. in her girlhood. and the mere navi-
CATION OF a British built iron bark did not
phase h"r any more than a new typewriter
would a good american girl tvpist.
The skipper left Trondhjem, Norway.
about a year 4 to do business in any port
that wanted his services. He sailed all
sorts OF sens and a. last found himself
down at Buenos Ayres. Miss Lincoln
Giertsen. who speaks pretty good English,
boyo bhc Irdiiy ntNtT HdS bctn more IMAM
a few seas and doubts very much that there
are seven.
She has read some Of Mr.. KiplinR and
thinks he IL a pretty good sort OF a writer
about the sea-. but abe cannot name n
particular seven real seas, unless the
considered. But seven IL a fine n autical
Eucnber, fitting the days of the week and
the Sutherland sisters.
Miss Lincoln asked her father to let her
take charge Of the wheel as the old bark
came within sight Of the Hook on sunday.
and he told her she could il the Sandy Hook
pilot, who had just come aboard. would con-
sent. The pilot, who 10 Of Norwegian ances-
Try, said he would be delighted. and SO the
girl started TO bring into port the old hooker,
ioaded down with quebracho. good for SON
sumptives. Miss Lincoln guided her up the
Swash like an expert. meanwhile scanning
the chart and getting q tip now and then
from the sympathetic pilot.
Generally vessels OF her class hail a tug
of the Hook and tow into anchorage. II IL
seldom that a Norwegian. supposed to he a
careful sort. ventures into a strange port
without taking a tug. But il meant a saw
ing. OF $50 or more TO come up unassisted,
and that is a good deal To a frugal skipper
VINO mas to have his daughter help him out
on a long speculative voyage.
When the bark neared Quarantine the
pilot decided that even the transcendent
talent Of a real Viking lass was not qua
to the emergency OF bringing her to anchor.
age through crowded channels OF Bellows
Island or guiding her into dock, IA was
done by IA unexampled Yankee shippers
OF the days before the war. Thus il was
that Miss Lincoln was cheated out of the
glory Of Icing the first foreign born woman
who ever brought a sea crossing craft TO
anchorage here. But she took her dis
appointment calmly. like a well disciplined
third mate
The skipper says she 10 worth her weigh
in gold and golden hair, and that he Toes
not see why a woman should not have
the right to boss a house 8fioat as well as
"a house ashore, notwithstand the tradi-
ito that a woman and a dog have no right
aboard ship.