Captain Cook Memorial Museum him on as apprentice seaman for a three-year term. Cook served Walker first as apprentice, then as seaman and lastly as master’s mate until he joined the Royal Navy in 1755. He spent most of his time at sea on Walker’s colliers, mainly in the coal trade between the Tyne and London but including voyages to the Baltic and Dublin. The Whitby historian George Young, ‘Life of Cook’ 1836, stated that during Cook’s apprenticeship Walker retained Cook in Whitby on occasion and lodged him in the attic of the house in Grape Lane. There should be no difficulty in accepting
Sylvia B. Seaman the women's rights movement, Seaman was arrested for wearing riding breeches in public. This act was seen as "unbecoming" of a lady and was not tolerated at this point in the twentieth century. Seaman was attending Cornell University when the 20th Amendment passed, where she gained the qualifications to teach High School English, which she did for several years following graduation. Also around that time she married William Seaman. She went on to write articles for magazines and newspapers with her roommate, Frances Schwartz, under the pseudonym of Francis Sylvin. Seaman believed that she needed to publish under a male