Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Victoria Alexandrina Drummond MBE (14 October 1894–25 December 1980), was the first woman marine engineer in Britain and first woman member of Institute of Marine Engineers. She was born at Errol, the daughter of Capt. Malcolm Drummond, JP and Geraldine Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, and a goddaughter of Queen Victoria. She went to sea in the 1920s, initiating a career then thought unsuitable for a lady. After completing her apprenticeship at the Caledon Shipyard, she joined the Blue Funnel Line's SS Anchises in 1922 as Tenth Engineer. In the ensuing 40 years she sailed on 49 voyages, which took her from her home in Megginch Castle in Scotland, to all around the world. She continued her career through hardship and discrimination, carrying out the physically gruelling work of the engine room as well as supervising a sometimes reluctant and prejudiced work force.

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